verb
in-frendĕo
Meaning
- to gnash
in-frendĕo, ēre, and in-frendo, ĕre, v. n.,
I. to gnash the teeth (poet. and postclass.):
dentibus infrendens gemitu, Verg. A. 3, 664: ac simul infrendens, Stat. Th. 5, 663: infrendite, inspumate, Tert. Apol. 12. —II. To gnash the teeth at, threaten furiously; with dat.:
aliis infrendentem, Stat. Th. 8, 580.