grind has definitions from the fields of work,education,food,dance
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[ verb ] press or grind with a crunching noise

Synonyms

cranch craunch crunch

Used in print

(Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)

Horse smell was very strong , and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws .

Related terms

press tyrannize

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[ verb ] make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

Synonyms

grate

Examples

"grate one's teeth in anger"

Used in print

(Ruth F. Rosevear, "North Country School Cares for...)

Today whole grains are freshly ground every_day and baked into bread .

Once the grains are ground , vitamin_E begins to deteriorate immediately and half of_it is lost by oxidation and exposure to the air within one week .

(Amber Dean, Encounter with Evil....)

He dropped it and carefully ground it to nothing with the sole of his heavy shoe .

Related terms

break_up chew gnash rub

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[ verb ] (food) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

Examples

"grind the spices in a mortar" "mash the garlic"

Used in print

(The New Republic, 145: 19...)

The highway_system is an agency of government , and when it grinds up 40000 Americans every_year the government is destroying its own taxpayers , which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do .

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[ verb ] (dance) 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

Used in print

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

`` We grind , too '' , he said .

Related terms

dance

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[ verb ] (work) work hard

Examples

"She was digging away at her math homework" "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

Used in print

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

The legislative mills have been grinding ever since , and when its cumbersome processes were no_longer adequate_to the task , a limited legislative authority was delegated in one form or another , to the executive .

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[ noun ] (work) hard monotonous routine work

Related terms

labor labor

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[ noun ] (education) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

Synonyms

nerd wonk dweeb swot

Related terms

learner labor

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[ noun ] the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Related terms

crush crunch grate powderize

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