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Chewing vs Gnawing - What's the difference?

chewing | gnawing |

As verbs the difference between chewing and gnawing

is that chewing is present participle of lang=en while gnawing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between chewing and gnawing

is that chewing is the consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant while gnawing is a sensation of being gnawed.

As an adjective gnawing is

severe or intense.

chewing

English

Verb

(head)
    • Stop chewing on your shirt and get back to work.

    Derived terms

    * chewing gum

    Noun

    (-)
  • (drugs) The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.

    • gnawing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of pain or hunger) severe or intense

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation of being gnawed
  • * {{quote-book, year=1836, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings , and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Marietta Holley, title=Samantha at the World's Fair, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="If I made them suffer the pains of exile, I would not let them endure also the gnawings of starvation. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Julian Street, title=American Adventures, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}

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