with a gnash of the teeth
31champ — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To seize, as food, with the teeth: bite, chomp, gnash, gnaw. See ATTACK, INGESTION. 2. To bite and grind with the teeth: chew, chomp, chump2, crump, crunch, masticate, munch. Regional: chaw. See MOUTH …
32grind — [c]/graɪnd / (say gruynd) verb (ground or, Rare, grinded, grinding) –verb (t) 1. to wear, smooth, or sharpen by friction; whet: to grind a lens; to grind an axe. 2. to reduce to fine particles as by pounding or crushing; bray, triturate, or… …
33mas|ti|cate — «MAS tuh kayt», transitive verb, intransitive verb, cat|ed, cat|ing. 1. to grind (food) to a pulp with the teeth; chew: »Americans now masticate 86 million pounds of meat every day (Wall Street Journal). 2. to crush or knead (rubb …
34Lamentations 2 — 1 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations… …
35snarl — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. growl, gnarl, grumble; entangle. See discourtesy, threat. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Confusion] Syn. tangle, entanglement, complication; see confusion 2 . 2. [A snarling sound] Syn. growl, grumble,… …
36grind — {{11}}grind (n.) late 12c., gnashing the teeth, from GRIND (Cf. grind) (v.). The sense steady, hard work first recorded 1851 in college student slang (but Cf. gerund grinder, 1710); the meaning hard working student is American English slang from… …
37bítan — bítan1 sv/t1 3rd pres bíteþ past bát/biton ptp gebiten 1. to bite with the teeth, tear; 1a. to bite, gnash the teeth; 2. used metaphorically of the biting or wounding by a sword, to cut, wound; 2a. of pungent substance; 3. gebítan dash down …
38rage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. fury, frenzy, wrath, violence; fashion, fad, craze. See desire. v. i. storm, rave, bluster. See excitement, excitability. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Violent anger] Syn. fury, wrath, ferocity; see anger .… …
39gnaw — [nô] vt. gnawed, gnawed or Rare gnawn, gnawing [ME gnawen < OE gnagen, akin to Ger nagen (OHG gnagan) < IE * ghnēgh < base * ghen , to gnaw away, rub away > GNASH, GNAT] 1. to cut, bite, and wear away bit by bit with the teeth 2. to… …
40masticate — v.tr. grind or chew (food) with one s teeth. Derivatives: mastication n. masticator n. masticatory adj. Etymology: LL masticare masticat f. Gk mastikhao gnash the teeth …
