Thesaurus results for GRITTING

gritting

verb

present participle of grit

as in scraping

to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound the crash victim gritted his teeth as a way of coping with the pain

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Recent Examples of gritting The director, a graduate of the AFI conservatory, spent two summers growing up gritting his teeth at an all-boys sleepaway sports camp. —

Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025 Bob Donnan / Imagn Images North Carolina and head coach Bill Belichick picked up a second straight ACC win on Saturday, gritting to a 20-15 victory over Stanford in Chapel Hill. —

Justin Williams, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025

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In photo after photo, video after video, North Shore residents are painted in mud, scraping it off driveways, sweeping it out of kitchens and heaving it into trucks along with their household debris.

— Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Process for 1 to 2 minutes, scraping down the sides as needed, until the mixture is smooth and sticky.

— Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026