gnashing
Angrily clenching jaws
Gnashing is the grinding or striking together of teeth, usually from rage, frustration, or anguish.
The phrase weeping and gnashing of teeth appears repeatedly in the Bible to describe the torment of the damned.
Outside religious contexts, gnashing suggests intense but often impotent anger: There was much gnashing of teeth when the policy was announced.
Involuntary jaw clenching
enamel · dental · mandible · occlusion · TMJ · toothache · wear · tension
Severe prolonged suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
distress · anguish · grief · woe · heartache · sorrow · affliction · travail
Prolonged mournful crying
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- hellfireEternal punishment by flame
- perditionEternal spiritual ruin
judgment · outer darkness · lamentation · eternal · punishment · sinners · condemnation · scripture
Intense, violent anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
- seethingIntensely, quietly enraged
- ireIntense fury
livid · outburst · temper · indignation · resentment · vexation · animosity · hostility
Intense weary annoyance
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
- defeatVictory over another
- disappointmentSadness from unmet expectations
discouragement · dismay · irritation · discontent · dissatisfaction · futility · impotence · thwarted
bruxism
Involuntary jaw clenching
molars · enamel · dental · mandible · occlusion · TMJ · toothache · wear · tension · nightguard
torment
Severe prolonged suffering
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
misery · distress · anguish · grief · woe · heartache · sorrow · affliction · travail · ordeal
wailing
Prolonged mournful crying
perdition · judgment · outer darkness · lamentation · eternal · punishment · sinners · condemnation · scripture · apocalyptic
rage
Intense, violent anger
ire · livid · outburst · temper · indignation · resentment · vexation · animosity · hostility · spite
exasperation
Intense weary annoyance
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
- defeatVictory over another
disappointment · discouragement · dismay · irritation · discontent · dissatisfaction · futility · impotence · thwarted · stymied
- chewingmastication, chewing, gnawing, biting, chomping
- lamentslamentation, wailing, keen, keening, lament
- mouth actionsbite, biting, chewing, chew, swallowing
- jaw actionschewing, clenching, opening, closing, biting
- primal instinctsinstinct, primal, feral, savage, predator
- loud soundsloud, scream, yell, thunderous, screaming
gnashingsmiling
Displaying warmth facially
grinning · beaming · laughing · serenity · tranquility
gnashingrelaxing
Becoming less tense
unclenching · slackening · loosening · resting · softening
- gnashing of teethJaw-clenching in anguish