单词 | grinding |
释义 | grinding (graɪndɪŋ ) 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe a bad situation as grinding, you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends. Their grandfather had left his village in order to escape the grinding poverty. ...the grinding difficulty of getting to the stadium. grindingly adverb [ADVERB adjective] Nursing was ill-paid and grindingly hard work. 2. to come to a grinding halt phrase If you say that something comes to a grinding halt, you are emphasizing that it stops very suddenly, especially before it was meant to. [emphasis] A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the petrol tank. 3. See also grind |
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