grit
verb/ɡrɪt/
/ɡrɪt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they grit | /ɡrɪt/ /ɡrɪt/ |
| he / she / it grits | /ɡrɪts/ /ɡrɪts/ |
| past simple gritted | /ˈɡrɪtɪd/ /ˈɡrɪtɪd/ |
| past participle gritted | /ˈɡrɪtɪd/ /ˈɡrɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form gritting | /ˈɡrɪtɪŋ/ /ˈɡrɪtɪŋ/ |
- grit something to spread grit, salt or sand on a road that is covered with iceTopics Transport by car or lorryc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryGrit is used with these nouns as the object:
- tooth
Word OriginOld English grēot ‘sand, gravel’, of Germanic origin; related to German Griess.
Idioms
See grit in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygrit your teeth
- to bite your teeth tightly together
- She gritted her teeth against the pain.
- ‘Stop it!’ he said through gritted teeth.
- to be determined to continue to do something in a difficult or unpleasant situation
- It started to rain harder, but we gritted our teeth and carried on.
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