gnash
/ˈnæʃ/
gnash verb: to grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
Verb
gnash (third-person singular simple present gnashes, present participle gnashing, simple past and past participle gnashed)
- To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
- gnashing your teeth
- Synonyms:
- chatter
- To grind between the teeth.
- to gnash the air in fury
- The dog was gnashing a carpet
- To clash together violently.
- There they were, boiling up in snowy spouts of spray, smiting and gnashing together like the gleaming teeth of hell.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- To run away.
Noun
gnash (plural gnashes)
- A sudden snapping of the teeth.
gnash meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
gnash in Hindi
- to grind one's teeth in pain or in anger
- पीसना pīsnā
gnash in Urdu
- to grind one's teeth in pain or in anger
- پِیسْنا pīsnā
gnash in Malayalam
- പല്ലുകടിക്കുക, പല്ലിറുമ്മുക, ദേഷ്യം കടിച്ചുപിടിക്കുക
gnash in Kannada
- ಹಲ್ಲುಕಡಿ, ಹಲ್ಲುಮಸೆ, ಕೋಪದಿಂದ ಕಿಡಿಯಾಗು
More languagesFewer languages
- gnash in Arabic
- قَرَشَ qaraša
- gnash in Persian
- ساییدن sâyidan
- gnash in Thai
- กัด gàt
- gnash in Vietnamese
- nghiến răng
Examples of gnash in a sentence
- There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in South Melbourne last Saturday night.
- “Could you not do that?” Gwen requested, gnashing her dentures.
- Believe you me, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the other members of the class.
Synonyms of gnash
Forms of gnash
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | gnashes |
| present participle | gnashing |
| past participle | gnashed |
| past | gnashed |
| Noun | |
| plural | gnashes |
Origin of gnash
From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”), all of onomatopoeic origin.
Words formed from gnash
Words that rhyme with gnash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about gnash
- What does gnash mean?
- Gnash means to grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
- What is gnash in Hindi?
- Gnash in Hindi is पीसना (pīsnā). See Gnash meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gnash?
- Gnash can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce gnash?
- Gnash is pronounced /ˈnæʃ/.
- What is the past tense of gnash?
- The past tense of gnash is gnashed.
Words near gnash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gnash (page history and authors); gnash (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gnash (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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