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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bruxism is a noun meaning "involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep". It carries one recorded sense.
involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bruxism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.