Pinching vs Gnawing - What's the difference?
pinching | gnawing |
That pinches, or causes such a sensation
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
The act of one who or that which pinches.
* 2012 , Paul Theroux, The Lower River
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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
As adjectives the difference between pinching and gnawing
is that pinching is that pinches, or causes such a sensation while gnawing is (of pain or hunger) severe or intense.As verbs the difference between pinching and gnawing
is that pinching is while gnawing is .As nouns the difference between pinching and gnawing
is that pinching is the act of one who or that which pinches while gnawing is a sensation of being gnawed.pinching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It was one January morning, very early — a pinching , frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
Verb
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(en noun)- Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings , such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
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