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"ref": "1832, Thomas Holley Chivers, The Path of Sorrow, Or, The Lament of Youth: A Poem, page 90",
"text": "[…] that man might see, / What worm begnaws — that vital core concealing / All its vile, consumptive bane, […]",
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"ref": "1860, William Hogarth: Painter, Engraver and Philosopher; Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time, VII, A History of Hard Work, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 2, issues 7-12, page 238",
"text": "Above him hangs, all torn, tattered, and rat-begnawed, \"A View of the Gold Mines of Peru.\""
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"To gnaw; to eat away at."
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"(transitive, archaic) To gnaw; to eat away at."
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