| Example in Russian | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| - Это гложет вас... - | - It gnaws at you... |
| Но это всё ведь гложет тебя верно? | But it still gnaws at you, doesn't it? |
| Но, ох, Мариана... моя жена и все, что я люблю... как ожидание гложет меня. | But, oh, Mariana... my wife and all I love... how the waiting gnaws at me. |
| Это гложет меня. | It gnaws at you. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | نخر | Catalan | rosegar |
| Dutch | afkluiven,afknagen, kluiven, knagen | English | gnaw |
| Finnish | jyrsiä, järsiä, jäytää, kaluta, kalvaa, nakertaa | French | ronger, se ronger, se rosifier, se roter, se rôtir, se rouler, se routiner, se rouvrir, se royaumer, se rudéraliser, se ruer, se ruiner, se rupturer |
| German | nagen, zehren | Hungarian | rágcsál |
| Icelandic | naga | Indonesian | menggerogoti |
| Italian | mordicchiare, rodere, rosicare, rosicchiare | Lithuanian | graužti, pagraužti |
| Norwegian | gnage | Polish | nadgryzać, nadgryźć, obgryzać, zeźreć, zeżreć |
| Portuguese | rilhar, roer | Romanian | roade |
| Spanish | roer | Swedish | gnaga |
| Turkish | eziyet vermek, kemirmek | Vietnamese | găm, gặm, gầm |