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GNAWING

Traducere în limba română

gnawing I. adjectiv

1. (despre animale) rozător.

2. (despre foame, griji etc.) chinuitor;

a gnawing hunger o foame chinuitoare.

gnawing II. s.

roadere, rosătură;

gnawing of the stomach ghiorăială la stomac.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing, while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

They were reckoning him as certain, but with her it was a gnawing solicitude never appeased for five minutes together.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Check Yes or No if the adjective applies to your pain; gnawing.

(BPI - Gnawing, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw designed for cutting or gnawing.

(Incisor, NCI Thesaurus)

I was firm, however, and told him that he could not have it, whereupon he went without a word, and sat down, gnawing his fingers, in the corner where I had found him.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Half a mile up the right fork, his quick ears caught the sound of gnawing teeth.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was afflicted always with a gnawing restlessness, more tantalizing than in the old days before he possessed her love; for now that he did possess her love, the possession of her was far away as ever.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was like the sound which a mouse makes when it is gnawing a plank, and I lay listening to it for some time under the impression that it must come from that cause.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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