Definition of "gnawings" [gnawings]

• Plural form of gnawing. (noun)

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• "Deer and white footed mice will also eat pretty much whatever they can get their mitts on, those shells remind me of mice gnawings."
• "These long lifeless books, once most dainty, but now become corrupt and loathsome, covered with litters of mice and pierced with the gnawings of the worms, and who were once clothed in purple and fine linen, now lying in sackcloth and ashes, given up to oblivion, seemed to have become habitations of the moth."
• "What is best in a state of brimful, equable suffering is that it does away with the gnawings of petty sensations."