gnash
verb (used with object)
to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
have gnashed
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present perfectof gnash.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I could have gnashed my teeth with anger as I stood aside uncovered, waiting for him to go.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
My solitude is solitude no more,130 But peopled with the Furies;—I have gnashed My teeth in darkness till returning morn, Then cursed myself till sunset;—I have prayed For madness as a blessing—'tis denied me.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
When the news of Lionel Verner's succession fell upon Roy, the bailiff, he could have gnashed his teeth in very vexation.
From Verner's Pride by Mrs. Henry Wood
By the time we have gnashed our way through one of those warm and mystic phenomena we don't want to eat again for a month.
From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley
De Berniers would have gnashed his teeth, but that he had not yet recovered from the exertion of his previous cackle.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
