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 ; toeat away ; tocorrode .
Etymologies
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Anglo-Saxon begnagan; prefix be- + gnagan to gnaw.
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