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gnash

verb as in grind

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The baroness gnashed her teeth as if she planned to bite someone, but the ovation grew until she had no choice but to step down and return to her seat at the trustees’ table.

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There was a terrible gnashing noise, and then each of the propellers ground to a halt.

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The veritable pity party gnashes its teeth more and more as the months pass.

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They’ve gnashed their teeth this year even at budget proposals that would only modestly slow spending.

The first felt too cold and couldn’t hack how to modernize Morfydd Clark’s Ophelia; the second started strong but got soggy with its repetitive weeping and gnashing.

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