grin
/ɡɹɪn/ verbo C2En español: sonreír
- To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. · Why do you grin? Did I say something funny?
- To express by grinning. · She grinned pleasure at his embarrassment.
- To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
- To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer. · He grinned a broad smile when I told him the result.· He grinned a cruel sneer when I begged him to stop.
He/she/it grins · Pasado grinned · Participio pasado grinned · Forma en -ing grinning
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De la biblioteca
“The appetite grows by what it feeds on,” said Caderousse, grinning and showing his teeth, like a monkey laughing or a tiger growling.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
The leader of the Winged Monkeys flew up to her, his long, hairy arms stretched out and his ugly face grinning terribly; but he saw the mark of the Good Witch’s kiss upon her forehead and stopped short, motioning the others not to touch her.
Holmes,” the inspector answered, with a knowing grin.
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