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outgnawing

outgnawing is the present participle and gerund of outgnaw.

Meaning of outgnaw

Verb

outgnaw (third-person singular simple present outgnaws, present participle outgnawing, simple past and past participle outgnawed)

  1. (transitive) To gnaw more or better than; to surpass in gnawing.

Questions about outgnawing

What is outgnawing the present participle and gerund of?
Outgnawing is the present participle and gerund of outgnaw.

Words near outgnawing in the dictionary

  1. outglowed
  2. outglowing
  3. outglows
  4. outgnaw
  5. outgnawed
  6. outgnawing
  7. outgnaws
  8. outgo
  9. outgoer
  10. outgoers
  11. outgoes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outgnawing (page history and authors); outgnaw (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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