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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



... his character and daily life. Are you counting upon Atticus and Callinus, the copyists, to put in a good word for you? Then you are deceived: those relentless gentlemen propose, with the Gods' good leave, to grind you down and reduce you to utter destitution. Come to your senses while there is yet time: sell your library to some scholar, and whilst you are about it sell your new house too, and wipe off part of your debt to ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata

... sweet peppers (pimientos), one Neufchatel cheese, one pared and quartered apple and twelve blanched almonds through the meat grinder. These may be put through alternately, or mixed as you grind. Rub the mixture, add a half teaspoonful of salt and a saltspoonful of paprika. Spread this between thin slices of buttered white or brown bread. Press, cut the crusts ...
— Sandwiches • Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer

... possibility in all those people, and saw all too plainly the vanity, the jealousy, the self-interests that show up so harshly against the professions of every altruistic movement. It seemed all such a windy business against the firm prejudices, the vast accumulated interests that grind race against race. We had no common purpose at all at that conference, no proposal to hold us together. So much of it was ...
— The Passionate Friends • Herbert George Wells

... have been running the wind mill, it has cost us nothing for repairs. We run it with a two-hole corn sheller, a set of 16-inch burr stones, and an elevator. We grind all kinds of feed, also corn meal and Graham flour. We have ground 8,340 bushels, and would have ground much more if corn had not been a very poor crop here for the past two seasons; besides, we have our farm to attend to, and cannot keep ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various

... was to make the first breach in the walls was the grandson of Mikhail Romanoff—Peter, known as "The Great." But the mills of the gods grind slowly—especially when they have a great work in hand; and there were to be three colorless reigns before the coming of the Liberator in 1689—seventy-six years before they would learn that to have a savage despot seated on a barbaric throne, with crown and robes incrusted with jewels, ...
— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele


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