(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.
Tusk
Definition:
(n.) Same as Torsk.
(n.) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
(n.) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
(n.) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
(v. i.) To bare or gnash the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The European council president, Donald Tusk, said the incident underlined the importance of EU attempts to revamp Europe’s border force.
(2) Civic Platform, led for most of its existence by Donald Tusk before he became president of the European Council, included many of the liberal architects of the post-1989 republic and their supporters – those who had negotiated the transition, those who determined its free-market economic model, those who established a conciliatory tone and pro-European orientation in foreign policy, those who negotiated the constitutional settlement reached in 1997.
(3) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
(4) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(5) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(6) "The PM and Prime Minister Tusk discussed the EU targeted measures approved today and agreed that the EU should continue to look at the ways it can promote a peaceful and democratic settlement in Ukraine, recognising that continued violence will make it harder to reassure all Ukrainians that their legitimate aspirations will be realised."
(7) Tusk added that Eurozone finance ministers could endorse cash in return for the proposed tax and pension reforms by Wednesday evening.
(8) EU renegotiation: UK wins partial concession on migrant worker benefits Read more In a major boost to David Cameron, who laid the ground for a short referendum campaign to keep Britain in a reformed EU after Donald Tusk published his proposals, the home secretary said progress had been made in the negotiations.
(9) She wants it to be a smooth, constructive, orderly process.” With speculation rife about how Britain plans to conduct the negotiations, Tusk wants to avoid a discussion and will not invite other EU leaders to respond.
(10) Tusk offered a declaration that the UK is “not committed to further political integration”.
(11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(12) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(13) It shows how important our discussion was … We are ready to help rebuilding of control of our external borders,” European council president Donald Tusk said in Brussels.
(14) To say that it is a Pandora’s Box is too little.” Tusk’s comments were the first delivered publicly on the British issue since he took office as European council president in December.
(15) Updated at 8.22am GMT 7.40am GMT Coming up at Davos Here's an agenda: • 9.30am CET (8.30am GMT): Henry Kissinger speaks on “The state of the world” • 10.30am CET: David Cameron gives a "special address" • 11am CET: Enda Kenny, Mario Monti, Mark Rutte and Donald Tusk discuss the eurozone crisis • 2.15pm CET: Angela Merkel gives a "special address" • 2.45pm: George Osborne discusses an "economic insight" (your guess is as good as ours!)
(16) First, because of the shape of the growth curve of tusks with age, the conversion factor that relates the number of elephants killed to the ivory yield in weight is not constant, but a function of the population size.
(17) Florian Siepert (@siepert) @Simon_Burnton As Hungary has neither a coast nor tusked mammals, Ivory Coast translates as Elephant Bone Bank in Hungarian.
(18) Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits as president of the European council, said the EU should agree to share at least 100,000 refugees.
(19) There the message is that everything in the Tusk-Cameron document is marginal, even meaningless, though simultaneously a threat to our whole way of life.
(20) This tusk specimen contains a metal spear with a wooden component, which is surrounded by a quiver-like osseous encasement.