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Grind   /graɪnd/   Listen
Grind

verb
(past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)
1.
Press or grind with a crushing noise.  Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch.
2.
Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.  Synonym: grate.
3.
Work hard.  Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
4.
Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced.
5.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash.  "Mash the garlic"
6.
Created by grinding.
7.
Shape or form by grinding.
noun
1.
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.  Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk.
2.
The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground.
3.
Hard monotonous routine work.  Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding.
4.
The act of grinding to a powder or dust.  Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization.



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"Grind" Quotes from Famous Books



... peppers, one small white onion and two tomatoes, and grind all together into a pulp, add a little salt and let cook ten minutes. When the chilies are fried turn the remainder of the batter into the tomatoes and boil twenty minutes, then turn this sauce over ...
— Bohemian San Francisco - Its restaurants and their most famous recipes--The elegant art of dining. • Clarence E. Edwords
... brought off successfully, it was only due her and himself that he take a little time off. In his present mood he convinced himself, as do most American business or professional men, that he was being driven in his work, and that he wanted nothing better than a let-up from the grind. As a matter of fact, he—and they—love ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... Hector. The starved, the cold and the shelterless can never be happy. God knows that I am no advocate of war, although it is my trade. It is a terrible thing for people to kill one another, but it does grind you down to the essentials. Because it is war you and I have an acute sense of luxury, lying here against a stone fence, smoking ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... go and grind the turmits for the sheep, and move 'em into the other fold for the night," said John, knocking out the ashes from his pipe and rising to go. As he was closing the door behind him he called to his wife, "You let ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 • Various
... love what He commands, lest we should neglect and despise what He commands, and find it some day unexpectedly alive and terrible after all. Let us pray to God to keep alive His kingdom of grace within us, lest His kingdom of retribution outside us should fall upon us, and grind ...
— The Water of Life and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley


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