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comparative more gnawing, superlative most gnawing
(of pain or hunger) severe or intense quotations examples
Engleitner found the constant gnawing hunger harder and harder to bear. When the rations eventually increased again and the prisoners were given stew, it did not make much difference to Engleitner.
2013, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, Unbroken Will
present participle and gerund of gnaw examples
plural gnawings
The process by which something is gnawed. examples
A sensation of being gnawed. quotations examples
The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.
1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
"If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation.
1893, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the World's Fair
But from the time we returned from our first journey, after having spent some months in trying, as some one put it, to "discover America," I felt the gnawings of excited appetite.
1917, Julian Street, American Adventures