Definizione monolingua

gnawing

gnawing

1. Present participle of gnaw.

gnawing (plural gnawings)

1. A sensation of being gnawed
   • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4^[1]:

     The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them.

   • 1893, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the Worlds Fair^[2]:

     ""If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation.

   • 1917, Julian Street, American Adventures^[3]:

     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.

gnawing (comparative more gnawing, superlative most gnawing)

1. (of pain or hunger) severe or intense

Definizione dizionario gnawing

Altri significati:

Present participle of gnaw.

A sensation of being gnawed

(of pain or hunger) severe or intense