gnash
verb (used with object)
to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
is gnashing
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present progressiveof gnash (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It's technically winter in most of the nation, but already there is gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands in my mother’s house.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"He is gnashing his teeth," it struck him, "just like the tall Russian."
From Men in War by Andreas Latzko
“It’s no wild animal–unless he’s got glass teeth and is gnashing ’em,” giggled ’Phemie.
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
You beg, but you threaten," said Boguslav; "you bend your neck, but the devil is gnashing his teeth at me from behind your collar.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
"No doubt to you, but I hope your pet beetle is not poisonous, for he is gnashing his pincers together inside my finger."
From Dawn by Henry Rider Haggard
