Definition of grind

noun (n)

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious (noun.person)

  Synonym: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk
  

  source: wordnet30
• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground (noun.attribute)

  Example:
  A coarse grind of coffee.
  

  source: wordnet30
• hard monotonous routine work (noun.act)

  Synonym: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding
  

  source: wordnet30
• the act of grinding to a powder or dust (noun.act)

  Synonym: mill, pulverisation, pulverization
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• press or grind with a crushing noise (verb.contact)

  Synonym: cranch, craunch, crunch
  

  source: wordnet30
• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together (verb.contact)

  Synonym: grate
  

  source: wordnet30
• work hard (verb.social)

  Synonym: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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 (verb.motion)

  source: wordnet30
• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading (verb.change)

  Synonym: bray, comminute, crunch, mash
  

  Example:
  Grind the spices in a mortar.
  

  source: wordnet30
• created by grinding (verb.creation)

  Example:
  Grind designs into the glass bowl.
  

  source: wordnet30
• shape or form by grinding (verb.creation)

  Example:
  Grind lenses for glasses and cameras.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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