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UK
/ɡɹˈaɪnd/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ ]
VERB
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work hard
Lexicographers drudge all day long
She was digging away at her math homework -
make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
grate one's teeth in anger -
created by grinding
grind designs into the glass bowl -
shape or form by grinding
grind lenses for glasses and cameras - press or grind with a crushing noise
- 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
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reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
grind the spices in a mortar
mash the garlic
NOUN
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the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
a coarse grind of coffee - the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- hard monotonous routine work
How To Use grind In A Sentence
- The quick touch buttons on the top are not really "touchable," you have to smudge (grind) the button a little to use it. Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
- They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
- It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
- Will you grind up a pound and a half of lean round steak for me?
- He was a highly intelligent commercial lawyer and then judge who suddenly found himself having to grind out fact after fact from nuggets of information painstakingly. Times, Sunday Times
- Jenny says if services do grind to a halt for a day it will at least demonstrate the importance and value of the work council staff do.
- They say that the mark of a great team is the ability to grind out results when they are below par, and this was another conspicuous example.
- Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
- You can ask your butcher to mince the thigh meat or use a domestic food grinder. Times, Sunday Times
- Westmoreland was wrong to count on his superior firepower to grind us down.
