grit shimmer swirl chant rampage

grit

grit2 verb (past tense and past participlegritted , present participlegritting ) [transitive]

1. to scatter grit on a frozen road to make it less slippery
2. grit your teeth
   • a) to use all your determination to continue in spite of difficulties:
     • Just grit your teeth and hang on – it’ll be over soon.
   • b) to bite your teeth together, especially when you are in pain, angry, or under pressure:
     • Ben gritted his teeth, hoping Sasha wouldn’t notice his fear.
     • ‘No, that’s alright,’ she said through gritted teeth.

shimmerng

shim·mer /ˈʃɪmə $-ər / verb [intransitive]

• to shine with a soft light that looks as if it shakes slightly:

  • The lake shimmered in the moonlight.

• shimmer noun [singular, uncountable]

swirl

swirl1 /swɜːl $swɜːrl / verb

1. [intransitive and transitive] to move around quickly in a twisting circular movement, or to make something do this
   • swirl around/round
     • Smoke swirled around her.
   • swirl something around/round
     • He swirled the brandy around in his glass.
   • The river had become a swirling torrent.
2. [intransitive] if stories or ideas swirl around a place, a lot of people start to talk about them – used especially in news reports SYNcirculate
   • swirl around
     • Rumours of a takeover began to swirl around the stock markets.

chant

chant1 /tʃɑːnt $tʃænt / verb [intransitive and transitive]

1. to repeat a word or phrase again and again:
   • protesters chanting anti-government slogans
2. to sing or say a religious song or prayer in a way that involves using only one note or tone:
   • a priest chanting the liturgy

rampage

ram·page1 /ræmˈpeɪdʒ, ˈræmpeɪdʒ/ verb [intransitive]

• to rush about in groups, acting in a wild or violent way
  • rampage through
    • Drunken football fans rampaged through the streets.