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grit your teeth
Definition
› to press your top and bottom teeth together, often in anger: He gritted his teeth in silent fury.Anger and displeasure C2 to accept a difficult situation and deal with it in a determined way: We had to grit our teeth and agree with their conditions because we wanted the contract.Tolerating and enduringCoping and not copingDealing with things or people
(Definition of grit your teeth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Tolerating and enduring
Synonyms and related words:
- bear with sb phrasal verb
- bearable adjective
- bide verb
- come to terms with sth idiom
- endurance noun
- philosophical adjective
- put up with sth/sb phrasal verb
- resign yourself to sth phrasal verb
- ride sth out phrasal verb
- stand up to sth phrasal verb
- stew (in your own juice) idiom
- stick it out phrasal verb
- stick with it idiom
- stomach verb
- sweat it out idiom
- tolerance noun (ABILITY TO DEAL WITH)
- tolerate verb (DEAL WITH)
- wait sth out phrasal verb
- weather the storm idiom
- withstand verb
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