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forgnawing

forgnawing is the present participle and gerund of forgnaw.

Meaning of forgnaw

Verb

forgnaw (third-person singular simple present forgnaws, present participle forgnawing, simple past and past participle forgnawed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To gnaw in pieces; eat up.

Questions about forgnawing

What is forgnawing the present participle and gerund of?
Forgnawing is the present participle and gerund of forgnaw.

Words near forgnawing in the dictionary

  1. forgivingly
  2. forgivingness
  3. forgivings
  4. forgnaw
  5. forgnawed
  6. forgnawing
  7. forgnaws
  8. forgo
  9. forgoable
  10. forgoe
  11. forgoed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forgnawing (page history and authors); forgnaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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