Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bite or gnaw; eat away; corrode; nibble at.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

Etymologies

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Anglo-Saxon begnagan; prefix be- + gnagan to gnaw.

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