Antonyms for gnawing
ˈnɔ ɪŋgnaw·ing

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1. gnawingadjective

   Synonyms:
   rodent

How to use gnawing in a sentence?

1. Field Museum:

   This puzzle has been gnawing at paleontologists, i was blown away when the results started coming in.

2. Edmund Burke:

   By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

3. Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville:

   Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

4. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

   One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

5. South:

   Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

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