gnash
verb (used with object)
to grind or strike (the teeth) together, especially in rage or pain.
will gnash
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future tenseof gnash.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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How many ex-officials, upon reading these passages, will gnash their teeth with envy that they hadn’t, or couldn’t, muster the moxie in their memoirs to let it all out the way Gates did?
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2014
And when it does, I suppose this team will gnash its teeth and take its punishment.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2010
Then there are a score of men who will gnash their teeth for Sallie—so many men love these Sallie Coxes.
From The Love Affairs of an Old Maid by Lilian Bell
They will gnash their teeth in impotent fury.
From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Evelyn Everett-Green
The cranks will be delighted; but the Empire will gnash its teeth.
From Mufti by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
