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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

... took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house. 22, Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. 23. Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... many of those—but the wrongs of the system. I want to record my protest against any discussion of this matter which would seem to indicate that there are bodies of our fellow citizens who are trying to grind us down and do us injustice. There are some men of that sort. I don't know how they sleep o' nights, but there are men of that kind. Thank God they are not numerous. The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. The modern corporation is not engaged in business ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... the bottom there was something different. Our driver informed us that in two hours we should be eating dinner at the ranch house in Jackson's Hole, where we expected to stop for a while to recuperate from the past year's hard grind and the past two weeks of travel. This was good news, as it was then five o'clock and our midday meal had been light—despite the abundance of coffee, soggy potatoes, salt pork, wafer slices of meat swimming in grease, ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

... of them." And Wee pointed to the waterfall that went dashing and foaming down into the valley. "That giant turns the wheels of all the mills you see. Some of them grind grain for our bread, some help to spin cloth for our clothes, some make paper, and others saw trees into boards. That is a beautiful and busy ...

— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... on high, But all about and around him goes up a bitter cry From the iron men of Atli, and the bickering of the steel Sends a roar up to the roof-ridge, and the Niblung war-ranks reel Behind the steadfast Gunnar: but lo, have ye seen the corn, While yet men grind the sickle, by the wind streak overborne When the sudden rain sweeps downward, and summer groweth black, And the smitten wood-side roareth 'neath the driving thunder-wrack? So before the wise-heart Hogni shrank the champions of the East As his great voice shook the timbers in the hall of Atli's feast, ...

— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang

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