(v. t.) To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.
(v. i.) To grind or strike the teeth together.
Example Sentences:
(1) I even suspect that if Charlotte had truly known what marriage to a man so teeth-gnashingly awful really meant – in a way that no woman without the experience of going out with, let alone sleeping with, someone inappropriate can – she would have made a different choice.
(2) Some gnash their teeth, others use their bladders or tails to make sound.
(3) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(4) While Arsenal fans have spent the last nine years gnashing and wailing, Hull supporters have cheered the incredible resurrection of their club, as David Conn explains here .
(5) The wine proved to be rather acid, thereby promoting abrasion as a result of gnashing, and to contain a high concentration of tannin.
(6) When China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy in 2010, there was less gnashing of teeth in Tokyo than some had expected.
(7) For some, it was the tale of a bear hunt, for others the story of the way wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes.
(8) Imagine Ed Miliband did what many are recommending and appointed Margaret Hodge as Labour's Whitehall efficiency tsar and charged her with improving effectiveness and efficiency such that a future chair of the public accounts committee would have no need to gnash their teeth and groan at the scale of waste.
(9) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
(10) Everything would be provided: Jacobs thought everything "was the worst thing we can provide" and cited a preacher's prophecy that there would be gnashing of teeth in hell.
(11) This may be an unfashionable view right now, with so much anti-Clegg teeth-gnashing – but the worst things Labour did, from Iraq to detention without trial, would never have happened if Blair had been in coalition with Charles Kennedy or Ming Campbell .
(12) Still, one can only imagine the teeth-gnashing and frothing at the mouth from conservatives and libertarians that will greet Thursday's announcements.
(13) I remember when development budgets were in the hundreds of thousands, and when the average became more than a million there was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth that this was an unsustainable trend.
(14) The serenity of the lobby-cum-assembly hall at the first free school awarded an outstanding Ofsted report is as good a place as any for those seeking sanctuary from the political gnashing and wailing that has become a hallmark of Michael Gove's time as education secretary.
(15) Iconfess I have not detected much wailing and gnashing of teeth at the news that the palace of Westminster, home of the Lords and Commons, is falling down , and will slide into the Thames in a decade or two unless what speaker John Bercow calls the “not inconsequential” sum of £3bn is spent tarting it up.
(16) Would you be fuming with rage, foaming at the mouth, gnashing your teeth?
(17) Clenching and gnashing of the teeth was also studied in relation to the personality variables.
(18) It’s all “ fiery lakes ” and “ everlasting destruction ” and “ weeping and gnashing of teeth ”.
(19) Strong to very strong activity was consistently observed in the superior head during clenching and tooth gnashing.
(20) The entirely-unofficial free game challenges players to "soccer bite with your friends", gnashing away at Italian players while avoiding the temptation to bite the referee characters and get a red card.
Nash
Definition:
(a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(3) Born Gladys Nash on 18 January 1903, she was brought up in Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, and went on to study at college.
(4) Nash also conceded that Furnival had not declared any conflict of interest at the meeting of federal, state and New Zealand ministers on 13 December, which Nash chaired and Furnival attended.
(5) In an ideal world, Nash said, the average OB-GYN might perform abortions, and the procedure would be just one of many ways doctors cover their business expenses.
(6) Bovine estrogen sulphotransferase c-DNA has recently been cloned; the encoded protein having a maximum Mr of 35,000 (Nash, A.R.
(7) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(8) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
(9) In the document, dated October 2013 and circulated to senior officials, Cummings said he and schools minister Lord Nash had “serious concerns” about Ofsted’s operation.
(10) That the Nash-reactive material was formaldehyde was validated by a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase positive reaction.
(11) John Nash is one of the founders of Sovereign Capital, a private equity firm with interests in the healthcare sector.
(12) Guardian Australia understands that at the last meeting of the state, federal and New Zealand ministers responsible for the new system, at which Nash has conceded Furnival did not declare a conflict of interest, Nash argued that the scheme should be subject to a full regulatory impact statement (RIS).
(13) The Lakers know all about injury absences: Bryant hasn't played since tearing his Achilles tendon during Golden State's last visit to Staples Center in April, while Nash is out for at least another week with nerve root irritation.
(14) On 31 March, the assistant health minister, Fiona Nash, announced drug and alcohol treatment programs costing the commonwealth $87m would continue for one year.
(15) One was designed by a famous architect, John Nash, the other by anonymous builders, though both were from an era (and in Nash's case, an architect) notorious for jerry-building.
(16) The patients were divided into bronchitics, emphysematous and broncho-emphysematous, according to the clinical and radiological Nash's score, and to another personal score derived from the former.
(17) 10.49pm GMT Nash says this was essentially an administrative error.
(18) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
(19) There was then a second call from another, more junior adviser in Fiona Nash’s office asking that the website be taken down.
(20) In most cases, NASH results in a progressive hepatic distortion with can end in cirrhosis, although the change is slow and silent.