gnash

as in to grit
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound dogs gnashing their teeth

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Recent Examples on the Web The paintings that appeared on eBay in the fall of 2012 featured skeletal figures with frenzied eyes, blocky crowns, and gnashing rows of teeth. Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024 His fans will love it, his detractors will automatically gnash their teeth and mourn the art form, and, like so much of Snyder’s back catalog, Chapter 1 (subtitle: A Child of Fire) will likely become an event movie for all the wrong reasons. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023 Others embraced the glaring lights of studio cameras and endured the shouted questions from the roiling mass of reporters, a many-armed creature of gnashing teeth and cell phones held aloft. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023 The 3-year-old otter was gnashing its teeth and biting its carrier, per WPTV. Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for gnash 

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“Gnash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnash. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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