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# grin

«grin» in Mova's school dictionary: **To smile widely, often showing your teeth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (grin, grins, grinned, grinning); noun (a grin, grins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To smile widely, often showing your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#m1)

2) (noun) A wide, happy or cheeky smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#m2)

3) Phrase «grin and bear it»: to put up with something unpleasant without complaining. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories a grin shows joy, mischief or cheekiness: «he grinned from ear to ear». «Grin and bear it» is an idiom for being patient. Phrases: grin from ear to ear, a cheeky grin, a big grin, wipe that grin off your face.

### examples

- Max grinned when he saw the birthday cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x1)
- She had a cheeky grin on her face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x2)
- He grinned from ear to ear after scoring a goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x3)
- The Cheshire Cat's grin stayed after the cat disappeared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x4)
- The injection hurt, but I had to grin and bear it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x5)
- Wipe that grin off your face and tidy your room! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x6)
- “At this the spectre grinned in my face and cried mockingly: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/#x7)

### note

Past: grinned; -ing: grinning (double n). A grin is usually wider than a smile. Do not mix up with «grind» or «groan».

### In the corpora

- [Which bits do you reckon they picked?" Alfie grins: "The shouty ones."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/7/)
- [Then a grin appears in the air: the Cheshire Cat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/4/)
- [Dad grins: «That's my boy.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/366-sam-is-scared-fear-is-normal/17/)
- [«Double car journeys, more like,» says Frida, grinning anyway.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/516-divorce-and-two-homes/38/)
- [Daisy scrolls Instagram and sees Dad's new family: two little kids at the beach, Dad grinning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.