grit
/ɡɹɪt/ verb C2- To clench (one's teeth), particularly in reaction to pain or anger. · We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.· He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
- To cover with grit.
He/she/it grits · Past gritted · Past participle gritted · -ing form gritting
Verb forms
- Base form
- grit
- He/she/it
- grits
- Past
- gritted
- Past participle
- gritted
- -ing form
- gritting
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“I’m glad because Gil--because some of the boys in school are Grits.
Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy Andrews’s father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl’s mother in religion and her father in politics.
“I haven’t got the grit to go there and look at a paper in cold blood,” he told Anne.
Lynde wanted to know what else you could expect with a Tory superintendent of education at the head of affairs, and Matthew, noting Anne’s paleness and indifference and the lagging steps that bore her home from the post office every afternoon, began seriously to wonder if he hadn’t better vote Grit at the next election.
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