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grind English

Meaning grind meaning

What does grind mean?
Definitions in simple English

grind Verb

— When you grind something, you use a machine to break it into smaller pieces. I used the grinder to grind the coffee beans.

grind

— verb press or grind with a crushing noise — verb (= grate) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together grate one's teeth in anger — verb 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 (= mash) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading grind the spices in a mortar mash the garlic — verb (= drudge, dig) work hard She was digging away at her math homework Lexicographers drudge all day long — verb shape or form by grinding grind lenses for glasses and cameras — verb created by grinding grind designs into the glass bowl — noun the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground a coarse grind of coffee — noun the act of grinding to a powder or dust — noun (= swot) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious — noun (= drudgery) hard monotonous routine work

Synonyms grind synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as grind?

grind English » English

crush sharpen pound mill pulverize polish rub crunch grate whet mash gnash hone smash reduce to powder swot powder mince labour squeak scrape roll pulverization pulverise pulverisation pestle masticate labor edge drudgery drudge creak comminute chew bray wonk strop smooth plodding nerd munch grit fag dweeb donkeywork crumble craunch cranch champ bite

Topics grind topics

What do people use grind to talk about?
Daily life Food Food preparation Steps in food preparation

Grind flour
Person Body Head

Tooth

  • What words refer to moving the teeth against each other?
    grind gnash
Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing trees

Growing coffee
Work and occupation Agriculture Process harvest

Mill grain
Physical actions Physical impact

Grind
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Cut
Daily life Food Eat

Bite, chew

Conjugation grind conjugation

How do you conjugate grind?

grind · verb

Examples grind examples

How do I use grind in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Grind this coffee very fine.
You need to take a step back from the daily grind.
They grind wheat into flour.
He who buries his head in the sand today will grind his teeth tomorrow.
I grind my own coffee beans every morning.
Do you know how to grind beef?
I grind my coffee by hand with a coffee grinder with a crank handle.
Don't buy ground cinnamon, grind it yourself before using.
We grind our coffee by hand.
Ancient Greeks built water wheels to grind grain thousands of years ago.

Movie subtitles

And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats.. you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
Say, do you grind this up before you eat it?
Have you got any special axe to grind?
If we could just get someone to grind them down into scalpels.
I'll grind them.
Back to the grind again, huh?
This money comes from the taxes that grind us down.
The Mexicans grind them for cayenne.
It's an uphill grind.
I grind up the garbage and mix it with water.
He's the only man who can be trusted to grind it properly.
He would grind them into the clay they mold, double their labors.
It's considered unlucky for a man to do his trading'or gin his cotton. or grind his meal or shoe his stock.
Yes, and ready to grind his heel into us.
And now, with the help of this sweet band of cutthroats you'll try to grind a ransom for him out of every helpless Saxon.
I'll grind out millions billions for our people, night in, night out day in, day out.
The grind, 365 days a year.
You put the strawberries in here. and then you grind them up with this, you see, and the jam collects down yonder.
Grandpa used to grind his flour here.
Grind the coffee.
Kerensky is between these two millstones, if not one then another will grind him up.
The ingredients were varied and I'd processed them all myself, using my new hammer-mill to grind everything very fine.
I turn over to my daily grind.
Don't let the bastard's grind you down.
All we need is a grind organ and a tin cup.
Get to know thyself, and grind coffee beans for 7 weeks.
Hares will weed out the garden, mice will sort the beans, cats will grind the coffee beans.
Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread!
I had to grind them more.
I'd like to see anybody try to grind me down. That'd be the day.
What I could do is take a valve. from that old Chevy and grind it down to fit.
Henry, don't grind your teeth.

News and current affairs

Brussels is nowadays a government town akin to Washington, D.C, even if it is also a place where complex negotiations among the Union's 27 members grind forward only slowly.
If, in future, every country continues to send at least one commissioner to Brussels, the process will grind to a crawl, if not a halt.
As a result, refinancing of mortgages will grind to a halt, leaving no money to draw out of housing to sustain Americans' consumption binge.
Everyone knows that a much larger EU must be more integrated politically if it is not to grind to a halt through sheer weight of numbers.
In this new legal environment, national efforts to dismantle business restrictions could grind to a halt.
Sarkozy has adopted a statesmanlike pose, as befits the incumbent, warning voters of the hard grind to come, such as the need to work longer hours for lower hourly pay.
There was widespread fear that dependence on computers would produce a millennial catastrophe, as hospitals, airplanes, power grids, and communications would all grind to a halt when 1999 became 2000.
As for Al Jazeera's journalistic performance, it is past time that the station be judged by respected professional journalists, not by US or other officials with a policy axe to grind.
Because the grind of government can obscure enduring principle, people inspired by the best motives now find themselves on the same side as their criminal adversaries.
Even China's supersonic growth is beginning to slow; some economists, including Larry Summers, are predicting that it could grind suddenly to a halt.
Conflict grew ever bloodier in Syria, continued to grind on in Afghanistan, and flared up periodically in West, Central, and East Africa.

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