gnash
verb (used with object)
to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
gnashed
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past participleof gnash.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gnash.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gnashverb (used with object)to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
Example Sentences
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The mask came off, the gnashed teeth of the Hulk gone, a face of these Tokyo Olympics revealed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
Journalists at CNN gnashed their teeth at missed opportunities to show off their toughness and knowledge if they’d been in his place asking questions of premiers or presidents.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 23, 2021
“The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019
“Strings soar, teeth are gnashed, heroines throw themselves across beds,” Elizabeth Renzetti wrote in The Globe and Mail.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
I wailed and gnashed my teeth over the fact that I had maligned a fellow student.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
