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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gritting
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Papa Johns had 170 restaurants in Ohio in 2025, according to the data-scraping website ScrapeHero.—
James Powel,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2026
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There were bits of physical comedy — the flower, the bowing and scraping around Catherine de Bourgh — that was kind of clowning, really.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Russia's war on Ukraine is a grinding war of attrition.—
Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
24 Feb. 2026
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Reconstruction will be huge The grinding four-year war has devastated Ukraine, which even before the fighting was one of the poorest countries in Europe.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Gritting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gritting. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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