gnaw

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Show that they log in every day and would sooner gnaw off their own arm than lose your app.

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Quick take

bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"

verb

become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gnaw.

verb

bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"

verb

become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded"

Example sentences

Show that they log in every day and would sooner gnaw off their own arm than lose your app.

Working at Amazon, I wanted to leave after a few weeks, it felt like I had to gnaw my leg off to get out of that trap.

You should never bite the hand that feeds you, but sometimes it's okay to gnaw on it a little, just to see what it tastes like.

Performance and consistency issues start to gnaw away at the ideal interface you carefully designed back when you were 20k users and 10 reqs/s.

But it would be nice to have a highly-regarded, Y Combinator-style incubator in NYC for those of us who would sooner gnaw off our arm than move to the Bay Area.

The over-ear Quiet Comfort 'noise canceling' headphones are one exception, and I gnaw my own liver whenever I have to replace a pair I donated as a "seat back prize" to the passenger on the next flight.

Now the billions previously spent on classifieds are available to buy entirely different kind of products but its still more logical for newspapers to gnaw on the bones of their previous business model.