- gnaw - bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"; "chewed on a cookie"
--1 is a kind of chew, masticate, manducate, jaw; bite, seize with teeth
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun gnawer1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- erode, gnaw, gnaw at, eat at, wear away - become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"
--2 is one way to decay, crumble, delapidate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s