[ UK /ɡɹˈa‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaɪnd/ ]
VERB
  1. work hard
    Lexicographers drudge all day long
    She was digging away at her math homework
  2. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
    grate one's teeth in anger
  3. created by grinding
    grind designs into the glass bowl
  4. shape or form by grinding
    grind lenses for glasses and cameras
  5. press or grind with a crushing noise
  6. 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
  7. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    grind the spices in a mortar
    mash the garlic
NOUN
  1. the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
    a coarse grind of coffee
  2. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
  3. an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  4. hard monotonous routine work
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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.
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