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Bite, in a way
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gnash
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. 2 (context transitive English) To grind between the teeth. 3 (context Geordie English) To run away
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. grind together, of teeth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN tooth ▪ Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor, gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth. ▪ But he has spent three or four years out in the darkness, gnashing his teeth . ▪ This sudden swing, forceful as ...
Usage examples of gnash.
Two officers of the United States navy were walking abreast, unguarded and alone, not looking to the right or left, never frowning, never flinching, while the mob screamed in their ears, shook cocked pistols in their faces, cursed, crowded, and gnashed upon them.
Too remorseless for the Spirit of the Waters, too bloodthirsty for the hierarchy of progressive victims, the last Ceratosaurus roamed the thick-leaved jungles in a vain search for the food which could satisfy his gnashing jaws: then died and slept with his fathers.
And now Yap heard a new noise, a low buzzing and chirping and clacking and gnashing noise, the undercurrent of a thousand pairs of legs, wings, and mouths, and he suddenly realized what they were.
Sweaty oil added a high polish to their bodies that made their red skin look like ripe McIntosh apples, and the gnashing of teeth could be heard through the metal clunk and thump of heaving and hefting.
One long table extended itself down the ample hall of Ellieslaw Castle, which was still left much in the state in which it had been one hundred years before, stretching, that is, in gloomy length, along the whole side of the castle, vaulted with ribbed arches of freestone, the groins of which sprung from projecting figures, that, carved into all the wild forms which the fantastic imagination of a Gothic architect could devise, grinned, frowned, and gnashed their tusks at the assembly below.
At the coming of that thought, the foul doing to death of the fearless Frenchman, he gnashed his teeth savagely and strained at the gyves until the pain in his ankles brought out beads of perspiration upon his forehead.
Serious publishing flourished, promoting liberal and left-wing ideas as well as a broad range of translated works that left the old ideologues sputtering and gnashing their teeth.
Look at the silly juggins, gnashing his teeth at the very men who put down the slave trade!
The kettle steamed softly on the range, Lizzie gnashed at her corncob, Nounou blew a gust of smoke and measured the stacks of dishes with a gloomy eye.
Gnashing my mandibles with glee, I followed him through with an extra-special reverse somersault with octal hitchkick.
The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.
Gnash roundhouse, he knew that much, abandoned a thousand years earlier after Blackhail had torched it.
Gnash was the older brother by a year and Yarl always did what his brother told him to do.
Our own Appetites bid fair to be impoverished for the present, as the Sow viciously Attacks anyone who opens the door of the Pantry, roaring and gnashing her Teeth in Rage.
Sir Francis shook his fists, Passepartout was beside himself, and the guide gnashed his teeth with rage.