gnash

as in to grit
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound dogs gnashing their teeth

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Recent Examples of gnash With his blunt bowl cut and single tiny hand, Prince Gerhardt showed off Reubens' gift for slapstick physical comedy, gnashing his yellow teeth and flailing his limp legs. Ew Staff, EW.com, 31 July 2023 The paintings that appeared on eBay in the fall of 2012 featured skeletal figures with frenzied eyes, blocky crowns, and gnashing rows of teeth. Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024 His fans will love it, his detractors will automatically gnash their teeth and mourn the art form, and, like so much of Snyder’s back catalog, Chapter 1 (subtitle: A Child of Fire) will likely become an event movie for all the wrong reasons. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023 Others embraced the glaring lights of studio cameras and endured the shouted questions from the roiling mass of reporters, a many-armed creature of gnashing teeth and cell phones held aloft. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023 See all Example Sentences for gnash 
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  • This muscular portion of the stomach helps the bird grind up and digest food, and it’s actually designed to hold some stones and grit to help the chicken or turkey digest food.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Away from the impossibly glamorous Left Bank headquarters of YSL, the Hadid sisters have been deploying their softly sloping jackets to bring both nonchalance and grit to downtime looks (and Rosalía’s birthday party).
    Alice Newbold, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
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  • Whisk in flour, scraping up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan until lightly browned, about 2 minutes.
    Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Biking to Chouinard’s home, Caldwell quickly realized how many of the original houses in Jackson had been scraped to build mansions.
    Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 8 Nov. 2024
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  • Scientists are scratching their heads over what drives these powerful tempests.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But even that blockbuster merely scratches the surface of his cultural impact.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Gnash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gnash. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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