grincer

Raichi grinçait des dents, mais ne disait rien.
Raichi gritted his teeth, but said nothing.
Les vagues ballotaient le bateau et le plancher grinçait.
Waves tossed the boat around, and the timbers groaned.
L'appartement n'était pas confortable, le lit grinçait et les draps étaient rêches.
The apartment was uncomfortable, with a hard, creaking bed and scratchy sheets.
La porte d'entrée ne grinçait pas plus.
But the floor in the hall doesn't creak much.
La porte grinçait.
The door was squeaking.
Je jugerais que ça grinçait avant.
You know, I could have sworn that this used to squeak.
Le principal occupant du logis les demandait parfois à sa femme, lisait et... grinçait des dents.
Our landlord would sometimes borrow them from my wife, read them, and gnash his teeth.
Pourtant, les grand-mères ont affirmé que si l'enfant grinçait des dents dans un rêve, on y voyait des vers.
Still the grandmothers asserted, that if the child creaks a teeth in a dream, at it worms were got.
Puis les pas s’éloignèrent, lentement, doucement, comme sur la pointe des pieds, ils franchirent sur le palier, descendirent les marches, le bois grinçait, et finalement Karl n’entendit plus rien.
Then the footsteps moved away, slowly, quietly, as if on tiptoe, walked towards the stairs and down them, the wood creaking, until Karl could no longer hear them.
La poulie des déménageurs grinçait en tournant.
The movers' pulley wheel screeched as it turned.
Je marchais sur la pointe des pieds, mais c'était en vain car le plancher en bois grinçait.
I walked on the tips of my toes, but it was in vain because the wooden floor creaked.
D’un coup précis, il après centimètre, les bras et les jambes tremblant sous l’effort, il parvint à ouvrir la machine qui grinçait comme pour protester.
Breath by breath, step by step, arms and legs rigid and quivering with effort, he peeled the screeching machine open.
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