Definition of grind in English:

grind

verbground ɡrʌɪndɡraɪnd

1with object Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it.
grind some black pepper over the salad
she ground up the rice prior to boiling
Example sentencesExamples
- With so many Mexican items in stores across the US, you can make your own chili powder by grinding your own spices.
- The bark is ground to an off-white powder that has a sweet taste and a pinelike odor.
- Then the corn is coarsely ground to break the germ loose from other kernel components.
- For the chicken, using a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and salt to form a paste.
- Finally, drizzle the whole lot with olive oil and grind black pepper over everything.
- You take a handful of each herb, put it in a mortar, and grind it to a powder.
- The bones are cleaned, toasted in oil and then ground into a powder.
- She took to grinding the medication into powder and snorting it.
- After harvesting, the corn needs to be ground into flour.
- The dried plant material was weighed and then ground finely using a ball mill.
- In a mortar and pestle, grind the chilli, salt and shrimp paste.
- If the root is ground to a powder, as some growers do, it is then boiled to extract the liquorice essence.
- He grinds pigments to a fine powder, then brushes them onto wet plaster, following the outlines of his sketches transferred earlier.
- The bark of this tree is collected fresh, well before the sunrise, and is ground up to make a herbal preparation.
- Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water.
- Leaf samples were ground in small mortars in liquid nitrogen.
- Addicts either swallow the tablets or grind them into powder that can be inhaled or turned into liquid and injected.
- People grind the seed and use the powder to boil the tea.
- Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn.
- Then the blackened beans are ground in a mortar.
Synonyms
crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, pestle, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble
technical triturate, comminute
archaic levigate, bray
1. 1.1 Sharpen, smooth, or produce (something) by crushing or by friction.
  power from a waterwheel was used to grind cutlery
  Example sentencesExamples
  He studies, grinds and polishes Japanese swords and daggers for sale to museums and private collectors across the world.
  The generator is a compound surface grinder used to grind curves in the surface of the lens
  In both operations, cutters had to be removed from the arbors and ground to resharpen.
  Using a diamond grinder, she ground some of the bones flush with the concrete surface.
  Unaided by some kind of equipment, a person cannot grind down the surface of a rock; that's why a field geologist carries a hammer.
  Some people actually shave or grind down parts of their skates so that they can fit larger wheels.
  After cooling slowly, the piece is then ground to remove excess enamel, and polished.
  The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened.
  Only in the black leaf bases did they reach the surfaces exposed by grinding off the charcoal.
  Next, Tinsley Laboratories will grind and polish the mirrors and finally Ball builds the telescope.
  When carving the background areas, one must be careful not to grind away too much white stone.
  Synonyms
  sharpen, whet, make sharp/sharper, hone, file, strop
  smooth, polish, sand, sandpaper
2. 1.2 Operate (a mill or machine) by turning the handle.
  she was grinding a coffee mill
  Example sentencesExamples
  We had no bread for quite a while, so we got wheat berries, and took turns grinding a coffee mill with our hands.
  Anyone who likes preparing a good meal has undoubtedly had the experience of enthusiastically shaking or grinding the pepper-mill over a pot only to find themselves in a sneezing fit moments later.
3. 1.3no object (of a mill or machine) work with a crushing action.
  the old mill was grinding again
  Example sentencesExamples
  But the mills of the gods sometimes grind in an unknown's favour.
  It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding.
  A handful of huts, a small mill grinding by the stream's edge, a place of twenty ploughs, no more.
  The company compares it to a turning machine that grinds.
  And those mills grind remorselessly and cruelly at times.
  Ever since the Americans built up the Dominican sugar industry in the 1920s, it is Haitian muscle that has kept the mills grinding and the cane cut.
  Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day.
  But last week the machinery at last began to grind in a legal process which has been delayed by nine years of political wrangling.
  At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
  The wheels of the mill are driven by water from the stream and as they turn the whole mill starts to grind and shake with sieves, wheels, drive belts all tied into the water power.
2Rub or cause to rub together gratingly.
no object tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other
with object he keeps me awake at night, grinding his teeth
Example sentencesExamples
- Eleanor clutched a handful of sand, grinding her teeth audibly.
- My teeth grind together, and my hackles rise, and I want to find the radio or whatever it is and rip it to bits.
- As we get closer to town, the bus begins making stops more frequently, the wheels grinding angrily on their worn bearings each time.
- She closed her eyes, her teeth grinding together.
- I heard stone grinding against stone and slowly the bookcase slid aside revealing a spiral staircase.
- Two plates meet just off Sumatra's coast, grinding together and sending tremors through the region.
- Excruciating backache feels like the bones grinding together.
- They rode the rest of the way in silence, listening to the gears grinding as they were lowered down.
- Rudolf could hear the metal of the wheels grind against the metal of the tracks.
- The US and European economies can be regarded as two giant tectonic plates that grind against each other.
- Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously.
- I could feel my teeth grinding against one another.
- The discs act as cushions that prevent the bones of the spine from grinding together, and also as small shock absorbers.
- For instance, the dentist might ask your parents if they hear you grinding your teeth when you're asleep.
- Rochester is a study in contrasts, a medium-size city that seems to sit astride the fault line where the new economy grinds up against the old.
- When she reached the hill, she really began pushing herself, her wheels grinding against the hard, rocky ground.
- Where these plates meet, they grind together, creating earthquakes.
- The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.
- It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone.
- The brain keeps trying to compensate, the teeth grind, and the whole jaw tenses up.
Synonyms
rub, grate, scrape, rasp
gnash, grit
1. 2.1with object Press or rub (something) into a surface.
  she ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray
  Example sentencesExamples
  He dropped his cigarette and ground it with his foot, the very motion making me ripple.
  Sebastian took one last puff on his cigarette before plucking it from his mouth, and grinding it into the ashtray.
  When we had new Tarmac laid on our drive, people were not only driving through it but actually grinding their tyres into the newly-finished surface, in spite of the warning signs.
  Kienan tossed his cigarette away and ground it into the deck.
  In time this will be ground into the path and form a solid long lasting surface, but currently it can be like cycling through sand.
  Jenny bent down to grind out her cigarette stub in the lank grass and then tossed it with a stone-skipping twist of her white wrist into the tangled shrubbery.
2. 2.2no object, with adverbial Move noisily and laboriously.
  the truck was grinding slowly up the hill
  Example sentencesExamples
  The elevator grinds loudly, about to reach the limit of its ascent.
  We've descended with him in an old cage lift that grinds and lurches down a shaft sunk in 1885.
  Three-wheeled beach vans selling everything from cigarettes to cakes grind their way through the sand.
  The platform rose, grinding loudly as it went, reminding the girl that there was something else that needed fixing besides her bike.
  He can then grind slowly westwards, picking up centres as the rest fight amongst themselves.
  Remember, the wheels of the justice system can grind very slowly, at least in the US.
  I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province.
  The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant.
  That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise.
  It was a slow day at work on the Monday before Melbourne Cup and the wheels of the Victorian bureaucracy were grinding slower than usual.
  Synonyms
  move laboriously, strain, struggle, drag oneself, fight one's way, labour
  chug
  North American informal putter
3informal no object (of a dancer) gyrate the hips erotically.
go-go girls grinding to blaring disco
Example sentencesExamples
- People were grinding, and just dancing, holding beers in their hands.
- I was not surprised as I saw Melissa grinding with Alex on the dance floor.
- Both get to grind against some scantily clad girls.
- He escorted me down a narrow hall and back to the party, where I was met with many people dancing and grinding to some music that got on my nerves.
- People were bumping and grinding together on the dance floor and others were either making out in a free corner or sitting and trying to have a conversation.
- Jude glanced around, seeing Andy grinding with some girl who was not Claudia.
- I actually ended up dancing - grinding - with my Aunt Carolyn's date, Jake.
- Some guy moved in behind me and started to grind against me.
- By the time I caught up to her, it was to behold the sight of her and Jake making out and grinding to the music.
- Very simple, very direct, able to make you move and grind.
- Christina and Toby stood up, went to the dance floor and started grinding.
- Everyone was dancing and grinding in very unusual ways.
- Jack knew that Angela wasn't the type of girl to grind while dancing, and he doubted whether she knew how to.
- She crawled on top of him and started dancing and grinding slowly on top of him.
- Soon she's balancing dance lessons with recording sessions and grinding with boy-band superstars, even her lifelong crush.
- Although the video did have a lot of ‘bloke appeal’, with the singer and her dancers grinding and gyrating from start to finish, I got the impression that it was all her idea.
- He laughed and moved to grind with the scarily leggy female.
1. 3.1British dated, vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse.

noun ɡrʌɪndɡraɪnd

1A crushing or grating sound or motion.
the crunch and grind of bulldozers
figurative the slow grind of the US legal system
Example sentencesExamples
- People discover they are capable of things they had hardly dreamt of, and realise talents and potentials previously crushed by the grind of capitalism.
- Tempos run from a zillion beats per minute to a slow, torturous grind.
- The sound of the hatch opening was replaced with a loud grind at the front of the pod.
- He captures the endless grind of urban progress with background noises such as busses and television dominating the soundscape.
- The slow grind of American law has produced indictments.
- The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges.
- "We use half a tank getting up the Kaimais and then we have the slow grind down the other side, " he said.
- Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness.
- Hypnotic grinds and guitar driven loops are this bands arsenal.
- Yet we know that not even the best technology, unattended, stands a chance against the slow grind of nature.
- The car stopped with a ding, then letting out a grind as it began to slide to its left.
- The song seamlessly carries on with 20 singers and the simple grind of a handful of chords.
- The uncomfortably familiar grind and click of a rampaging computer sounded again, the numbers beginning anew.
- The leaves splintered and crunched with a profound grind: amplified by the silence of the wood.
1. 1.1 The size of ground particles.
  only the right grind gives you all the fine flavour
  Example sentencesExamples
  Visitors can choose either roasted coffee beans, medium grind coffee, fine blend coffee or cappuccino in different sizes and packets.
  This grind we call a Turkish Grind which is the finest grind yet.
  The flour texture is a medium grind perfectly suited for my breads, cookies and muffins.
  The motor will not clog up with a very fine grind.
2Hard dull work.
relief from the daily grind
Example sentencesExamples
- But it is a tough grind for the animals and the men.
- A friend of mine has escaped the daily grind for a jaunt to Paris.
- Some say the grind of the season will break you down mentally.
- Work is turning into a grind with 3 projects on the go.
- Such preseason work will pay off through the grind of a long season.
- It's time to take a break from the normal grind, slow down, take it easy, and of course… listen to relaxing music.
- For most working women, it is a long, hard grind.
- Her working life is a relentless grind, just as it is for many working people.
- Escaping from their day-to-day grind was the sole reason for signing up in the first place.
- His decision to give up the daily grind was made when he took 10 weeks off in the summer of 2001 to ponder the future.
- Others ditch the daily grind for a slower-paced life.
- She feels that her job has freed her from both the grind of the touring lifestyle and pressures she would face to tailor her work to the tastes of out-of-town presenters.
- I understand that retirement can be a major shock to the system if you have been used to working for your living and coping with the pressures and aggravations of the daily grind.
- Feel the need to escape the daily grind?
- Each worker has a tale of hard work, staff shortages and the daily grind to survive.
- All the worries, all the tears and anger and stress, the relentless grind of her life - gone.
- It was a hell of a lot of fun for a while, but eventually turned into a grind.
- It's like taking a step away from the daily grind, the hard slog, the trials and the tribulations so you can focus on nothing but having fun for three whole days.
- The work should pay off during the grind of August and September.
- And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman.
Synonyms
chore, slog, travail
drudgery, toil, hard work, donkey work, labour, slavery, exertion
informal fag, sweat
1. 2.1US informal An excessively hard-working student.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In gymnastics, like in school, there are grinds who learn everything by rote.
  In a class full of grinds that sent more than eighty kids on to Ivy League schools each year, he finished first, effortlessly, and sailed through Harvard with equal ease.
  She is an insufferably sensible young woman a grind at school, hiding behind thick glasses and inside bulky cardigans.
  You sound like a total grind. Like you never skipped a class the day after a party.
  About 1957, MIT undergraduates began referring to ‘gnurds,’ studious grinds, especially in science and engineering.
2. 2.2Irish A private tuition class.
  experienced teacher offers grinds in Maths and Irish, to all levels
  Example sentencesExamples
  The rich can afford to send their children to fee-paying schools and then top that up with grinds to get them into the best courses.
  Expensive grinds and extra tutorial classes also feature in today's lifestyle of even the youngest students.
  The top schools cater for a cohort of students whose parents can afford to pay for grinds and revision courses.
  If even half of Leaving Cert students were paying for grinds at this rate of €45 per hour, it would make the industry worth €50 million a year.
  Therefore, in a school that sends a large percentage of its students to university, the majority of those students may have had grinds.
3informal A dancer's erotic gyration of the hips.
a bump and grind
Example sentencesExamples
- How often do we get to see a bump and grind performed on pointe?
- A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds.
- Diana, who had gotten up from the table to fetch another biscuit, did an impromptu bump and grind.
- Two women did concentrated bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds.
- She smiled seductively when she saw him, and walked over, swinging her hips in a slow grind.
- Also notable was the choreography of dirty grinds and salsa steps, which were pulled off with equally impressive aplomb.
1. 3.1British dated, vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse.

Phrases

grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt)

Slow down gradually and then stop completely.
in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt
the surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt
Example sentencesExamples
- It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt.
- By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt.
- We came to a grinding halt on the side of the road to find petrol leaking from the bottom of the carburettor.
- The bus then slowly ground to a halt.
- Thanks to some quick measure taken by the authorities, the work on the project which had come to a grinding halt once, has finally reached the completion stage.
- Less than an hour before, traffic ground to a halt when a truck had a blow-out.
- Motorists are concerned that city centre traffic could grind to a halt when the street is closed from October 31.
- My exercise regime came to a grinding halt about a month ago when I got a knee effusion out of nowhere.
- Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said.
- We breezed into the airport, got our tickets, cleared customs - and came to a grinding halt at immigration.

Phrasal Verbs

grind away

Work or study hard.
he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant
Example sentencesExamples
- He has continued to grind away at the project to which he dedicated himself more than a decade ago.
- It's going to take a bunch of us grinding away at it full-time to make this stuff work.
- It really is encouraging to the guys who have been here grinding away.
- That is the Third Division, you have to battle and grind away.
- It's more flexible, it's clean, your're scheduled to meet your clients and left alone with them, instead of grinding away to meet quotas and schedules with bosses looking over your shoulder.
- You just have to keep grinding away and hope that it happens for you.
- Some people think that the only practical way to work is to take a single task and grind away until it is done, and then look around to determine what is the right next piece of work to do.
- It's quite depressing for the kind of writers who grind away at it for years sort of honing their craft and then do the book.
- You use it only when you feel that the other side is simply grinding away to get the last penny off your price.
- Keeping up the illusion of grinding away at the same old job isn't enough, however.

grind someone down

Wear someone down with continuous harsh treatment.
mundane everyday things which just grind people down
Example sentencesExamples
- The conditions of Indonesian women in 1900 were atrocious; they were ground down by their social position in general, by the aristocracy and by Dutch imperialism.
- A prominent public figure, she was also the survivor of an unhappy family, and private sadness had ground her down by the time she reached her 50s.
- I've been doing this kind of thing for more than two years now, and it's grinding me down.
- The job was grinding him down without making him rich.
- I suspect they were trying to grind me down into submission.
- ‘We are fighting a continual battle and eventually it grinds you down,’ she said.
- As much as you try to be professional, it does grind you down.
- We know that his years of drudgery have ground him down.
- And I agree, the pain does grind us down and is something that can't really be explained in words.
Synonyms
oppress, persecute, tyrannize, suppress

grind on

Continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way.
the rail talks grind on
Example sentencesExamples
- Even as the proceedings grind on, it is increasingly apparent that no one has any clear idea of where the inquiry is headed or indeed where it will end up.
- His troubles began in February 2000 but the case against him continues to grind on.
- If the economy does not get going soon and if the guerrilla war grinds on then the tide could easily turn.
- So many copies were made that not all of them were destroyed as the centuries ground on.
- He must have been suffering agonies of worry as the weeks grind on and foot and mouth continues to ravage the land.
Synonyms
drag on, go on and on, plod on, pass slowly, move slowly, creep along, limp along, crawl, hang heavy, go at a snail's pace, wear on, go on too long

grind something out

Produce something dull or tedious slowly and laboriously.
the band was grinding out the inevitable summer songs
Example sentencesExamples
- I think there's a realization, obviously, that, look, we're going to go through a process, and it's in the courts now, and the machinery is going to have to grind it out, and it's going to take some time.
- Anne McCaffrey, bless her ink-stained fingers, keeps grinding them out.
- Gradually, however, productivity improvements have been ground out and Germany's relative unit labour costs have fallen.
- I've had six years at this club and the situation we're in now is terrible but we've just got to keep going and grind results out.
- These last couple of months, I'll grind it out and see if I'm in the plans for next year or not.
- The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business.
- He growled slowly, seemingly having great difficulty grinding the words out.
- He said: ‘I know it wasn't all that pretty but we keep grinding the results out even though we are missing some good players.’
- We ground it out in the trenches, creating the identity of the magazine issue by issue.
- Right now I'd be grinding it out on Wall Street and probably hating life.
Synonyms
produce, generate, crank out, turn out

Origin

Old English grindan, probably of Germanic origin. Although no cognates are known, it may be distantly related to Latin frendere 'rub away, gnash'.

Rhymes

affined, behind, bind, blind, find, hind, humankind, interwind, kind, mankind, mind, nonaligned, resigned, rind, unaligned, unassigned, unconfined, undefined, undersigned, undesigned, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, wynd

Definition of grind in US English:

grind

verbɡraɪndɡrīnd

1with object Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it.
grind some black pepper over the salad
they grind up fish for fertilizer
Example sentencesExamples
- Then the corn is coarsely ground to break the germ loose from other kernel components.
- Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn.
- Then the blackened beans are ground in a mortar.
- The dried plant material was weighed and then ground finely using a ball mill.
- You take a handful of each herb, put it in a mortar, and grind it to a powder.
- After harvesting, the corn needs to be ground into flour.
- In a mortar and pestle, grind the chilli, salt and shrimp paste.
- Leaf samples were ground in small mortars in liquid nitrogen.
- Finally, drizzle the whole lot with olive oil and grind black pepper over everything.
- If the root is ground to a powder, as some growers do, it is then boiled to extract the liquorice essence.
- For the chicken, using a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and salt to form a paste.
- The bark of this tree is collected fresh, well before the sunrise, and is ground up to make a herbal preparation.
- Addicts either swallow the tablets or grind them into powder that can be inhaled or turned into liquid and injected.
- People grind the seed and use the powder to boil the tea.
- The bones are cleaned, toasted in oil and then ground into a powder.
- She took to grinding the medication into powder and snorting it.
- Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water.
- He grinds pigments to a fine powder, then brushes them onto wet plaster, following the outlines of his sketches transferred earlier.
- The bark is ground to an off-white powder that has a sweet taste and a pinelike odor.
- With so many Mexican items in stores across the US, you can make your own chili powder by grinding your own spices.
Synonyms
crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, pestle, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble
1. 1.1 Sharpen, smooth, or produce (something) by crushing or by friction.
  power from a waterwheel was used to grind cutlery
  Example sentencesExamples
  Using a diamond grinder, she ground some of the bones flush with the concrete surface.
  Unaided by some kind of equipment, a person cannot grind down the surface of a rock; that's why a field geologist carries a hammer.
  When carving the background areas, one must be careful not to grind away too much white stone.
  He studies, grinds and polishes Japanese swords and daggers for sale to museums and private collectors across the world.
  The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened.
  Only in the black leaf bases did they reach the surfaces exposed by grinding off the charcoal.
  After cooling slowly, the piece is then ground to remove excess enamel, and polished.
  The generator is a compound surface grinder used to grind curves in the surface of the lens
  Some people actually shave or grind down parts of their skates so that they can fit larger wheels.
  Next, Tinsley Laboratories will grind and polish the mirrors and finally Ball builds the telescope.
  In both operations, cutters had to be removed from the arbors and ground to resharpen.
  Synonyms
  sharpen, whet, make sharp, make sharper, hone, file, strop
2. 1.2 Operate (a mill or machine) by turning the handle.
  she was grinding a coffee mill
  Example sentencesExamples
  We had no bread for quite a while, so we got wheat berries, and took turns grinding a coffee mill with our hands.
  Anyone who likes preparing a good meal has undoubtedly had the experience of enthusiastically shaking or grinding the pepper-mill over a pot only to find themselves in a sneezing fit moments later.
3. 1.3no object (of a mill or machine) work with a crushing action.
  the old mill was grinding again
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding.
  At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring.
  Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day.
  But last week the machinery at last began to grind in a legal process which has been delayed by nine years of political wrangling.
  And those mills grind remorselessly and cruelly at times.
  Ever since the Americans built up the Dominican sugar industry in the 1920s, it is Haitian muscle that has kept the mills grinding and the cane cut.
  The company compares it to a turning machine that grinds.
  But the mills of the gods sometimes grind in an unknown's favour.
  A handful of huts, a small mill grinding by the stream's edge, a place of twenty ploughs, no more.
  The wheels of the mill are driven by water from the stream and as they turn the whole mill starts to grind and shake with sieves, wheels, drive belts all tied into the water power.
2Rub or cause to rub together gratingly.
no object tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other
with object he keeps me awake at night, grinding his teeth
Example sentencesExamples
- Two plates meet just off Sumatra's coast, grinding together and sending tremors through the region.
- I heard stone grinding against stone and slowly the bookcase slid aside revealing a spiral staircase.
- The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together.
- It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone.
- The US and European economies can be regarded as two giant tectonic plates that grind against each other.
- Excruciating backache feels like the bones grinding together.
- She closed her eyes, her teeth grinding together.
- Rochester is a study in contrasts, a medium-size city that seems to sit astride the fault line where the new economy grinds up against the old.
- As we get closer to town, the bus begins making stops more frequently, the wheels grinding angrily on their worn bearings each time.
- For instance, the dentist might ask your parents if they hear you grinding your teeth when you're asleep.
- Where these plates meet, they grind together, creating earthquakes.
- I could feel my teeth grinding against one another.
- They rode the rest of the way in silence, listening to the gears grinding as they were lowered down.
- My teeth grind together, and my hackles rise, and I want to find the radio or whatever it is and rip it to bits.
- Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously.
- The brain keeps trying to compensate, the teeth grind, and the whole jaw tenses up.
- Rudolf could hear the metal of the wheels grind against the metal of the tracks.
- When she reached the hill, she really began pushing herself, her wheels grinding against the hard, rocky ground.
- The discs act as cushions that prevent the bones of the spine from grinding together, and also as small shock absorbers.
- Eleanor clutched a handful of sand, grinding her teeth audibly.
Synonyms
rub, grate, scrape, rasp
gnash, grit
1. 2.1no object, with adverbial Move noisily and laboriously, especially against a countering force.
  the truck was grinding slowly up the hill
  Example sentencesExamples
  We've descended with him in an old cage lift that grinds and lurches down a shaft sunk in 1885.
  The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant.
  The platform rose, grinding loudly as it went, reminding the girl that there was something else that needed fixing besides her bike.
  The elevator grinds loudly, about to reach the limit of its ascent.
  That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise.
  Three-wheeled beach vans selling everything from cigarettes to cakes grind their way through the sand.
  He can then grind slowly westwards, picking up centres as the rest fight amongst themselves.
  It was a slow day at work on the Monday before Melbourne Cup and the wheels of the Victorian bureaucracy were grinding slower than usual.
  Remember, the wheels of the justice system can grind very slowly, at least in the US.
  I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province.
  Synonyms
  move laboriously, strain, struggle, drag oneself, fight one's way, labour
3informal no object (of a dancer) rotate the hips.
go-go girls grinding to blaring disco
Example sentencesExamples
- He laughed and moved to grind with the scarily leggy female.
- Soon she's balancing dance lessons with recording sessions and grinding with boy-band superstars, even her lifelong crush.
- People were bumping and grinding together on the dance floor and others were either making out in a free corner or sitting and trying to have a conversation.
- I actually ended up dancing - grinding - with my Aunt Carolyn's date, Jake.
- Both get to grind against some scantily clad girls.
- By the time I caught up to her, it was to behold the sight of her and Jake making out and grinding to the music.
- She crawled on top of him and started dancing and grinding slowly on top of him.
- Christina and Toby stood up, went to the dance floor and started grinding.
- Everyone was dancing and grinding in very unusual ways.
- Jack knew that Angela wasn't the type of girl to grind while dancing, and he doubted whether she knew how to.
- Some guy moved in behind me and started to grind against me.
- Although the video did have a lot of ‘bloke appeal’, with the singer and her dancers grinding and gyrating from start to finish, I got the impression that it was all her idea.
- Jude glanced around, seeing Andy grinding with some girl who was not Claudia.
- He escorted me down a narrow hall and back to the party, where I was met with many people dancing and grinding to some music that got on my nerves.
- People were grinding, and just dancing, holding beers in their hands.
- Very simple, very direct, able to make you move and grind.
- I was not surprised as I saw Melissa grinding with Alex on the dance floor.

nounɡraɪndɡrīnd

1A crushing or grating sound or motion.
the crunch and grind of bulldozers
figurative the slow grind of the US legal system
Example sentencesExamples
- Tempos run from a zillion beats per minute to a slow, torturous grind.
- The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges.
- He captures the endless grind of urban progress with background noises such as busses and television dominating the soundscape.
- Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness.
- The sound of the hatch opening was replaced with a loud grind at the front of the pod.
- The slow grind of American law has produced indictments.
- People discover they are capable of things they had hardly dreamt of, and realise talents and potentials previously crushed by the grind of capitalism.
- The song seamlessly carries on with 20 singers and the simple grind of a handful of chords.
- The leaves splintered and crunched with a profound grind: amplified by the silence of the wood.
- The uncomfortably familiar grind and click of a rampaging computer sounded again, the numbers beginning anew.
- "We use half a tank getting up the Kaimais and then we have the slow grind down the other side, " he said.
- Hypnotic grinds and guitar driven loops are this bands arsenal.
- The car stopped with a ding, then letting out a grind as it began to slide to its left.
- Yet we know that not even the best technology, unattended, stands a chance against the slow grind of nature.
1. 1.1 The size of ground particles.
  only the right grind gives you all the fine flavor
  Example sentencesExamples
  The flour texture is a medium grind perfectly suited for my breads, cookies and muffins.
  The motor will not clog up with a very fine grind.
  This grind we call a Turkish Grind which is the finest grind yet.
  Visitors can choose either roasted coffee beans, medium grind coffee, fine blend coffee or cappuccino in different sizes and packets.
2Hard dull work.
relief from the daily grind
Example sentencesExamples
- Others ditch the daily grind for a slower-paced life.
- It was a hell of a lot of fun for a while, but eventually turned into a grind.
- For most working women, it is a long, hard grind.
- Some say the grind of the season will break you down mentally.
- I understand that retirement can be a major shock to the system if you have been used to working for your living and coping with the pressures and aggravations of the daily grind.
- But it is a tough grind for the animals and the men.
- Such preseason work will pay off through the grind of a long season.
- Feel the need to escape the daily grind?
- Escaping from their day-to-day grind was the sole reason for signing up in the first place.
- All the worries, all the tears and anger and stress, the relentless grind of her life - gone.
- Work is turning into a grind with 3 projects on the go.
- Each worker has a tale of hard work, staff shortages and the daily grind to survive.
- It's like taking a step away from the daily grind, the hard slog, the trials and the tribulations so you can focus on nothing but having fun for three whole days.
- And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman.
- The work should pay off during the grind of August and September.
- It's time to take a break from the normal grind, slow down, take it easy, and of course… listen to relaxing music.
- His decision to give up the daily grind was made when he took 10 weeks off in the summer of 2001 to ponder the future.
- A friend of mine has escaped the daily grind for a jaunt to Paris.
- She feels that her job has freed her from both the grind of the touring lifestyle and pressures she would face to tailor her work to the tastes of out-of-town presenters.
- Her working life is a relentless grind, just as it is for many working people.
Synonyms
chore, slog, travail
1. 2.1US informal An excessively hard-working student.
  Example sentencesExamples
  You sound like a total grind. Like you never skipped a class the day after a party.
  In a class full of grinds that sent more than eighty kids on to Ivy League schools each year, he finished first, effortlessly, and sailed through Harvard with equal ease.
  In gymnastics, like in school, there are grinds who learn everything by rote.
  She is an insufferably sensible young woman a grind at school, hiding behind thick glasses and inside bulky cardigans.
  About 1957, MIT undergraduates began referring to ‘gnurds,’ studious grinds, especially in science and engineering.
3informal A dancer's rotary movement of the hips.
a bump and grind
Example sentencesExamples
- Also notable was the choreography of dirty grinds and salsa steps, which were pulled off with equally impressive aplomb.
- How often do we get to see a bump and grind performed on pointe?
- She smiled seductively when she saw him, and walked over, swinging her hips in a slow grind.
- A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds.
- Two women did concentrated bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds.
- Diana, who had gotten up from the table to fetch another biscuit, did an impromptu bump and grind.

Phrases

grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt)

Move more and more slowly and then stop.
Example sentencesExamples
- Motorists are concerned that city centre traffic could grind to a halt when the street is closed from October 31.
- We breezed into the airport, got our tickets, cleared customs - and came to a grinding halt at immigration.
- The bus then slowly ground to a halt.
- Less than an hour before, traffic ground to a halt when a truck had a blow-out.
- By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt.
- My exercise regime came to a grinding halt about a month ago when I got a knee effusion out of nowhere.
- It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt.
- Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said.
- We came to a grinding halt on the side of the road to find petrol leaking from the bottom of the carburettor.
- Thanks to some quick measure taken by the authorities, the work on the project which had come to a grinding halt once, has finally reached the completion stage.

Phrasal Verbs

grind away

Work or study hard.
Example sentencesExamples
- It's going to take a bunch of us grinding away at it full-time to make this stuff work.
- It's quite depressing for the kind of writers who grind away at it for years sort of honing their craft and then do the book.
- It really is encouraging to the guys who have been here grinding away.
- He has continued to grind away at the project to which he dedicated himself more than a decade ago.
- Keeping up the illusion of grinding away at the same old job isn't enough, however.
- That is the Third Division, you have to battle and grind away.
- Some people think that the only practical way to work is to take a single task and grind away until it is done, and then look around to determine what is the right next piece of work to do.
- It's more flexible, it's clean, your're scheduled to meet your clients and left alone with them, instead of grinding away to meet quotas and schedules with bosses looking over your shoulder.
- You use it only when you feel that the other side is simply grinding away to get the last penny off your price.
- You just have to keep grinding away and hope that it happens for you.

grind someone down

Wear someone down with continuous harsh or oppressive treatment.
mundane everyday things which just grind people down
Example sentencesExamples
- The job was grinding him down without making him rich.
- And I agree, the pain does grind us down and is something that can't really be explained in words.
- We know that his years of drudgery have ground him down.
- A prominent public figure, she was also the survivor of an unhappy family, and private sadness had ground her down by the time she reached her 50s.
- I suspect they were trying to grind me down into submission.
- I've been doing this kind of thing for more than two years now, and it's grinding me down.
- The conditions of Indonesian women in 1900 were atrocious; they were ground down by their social position in general, by the aristocracy and by Dutch imperialism.
- ‘We are fighting a continual battle and eventually it grinds you down,’ she said.
- As much as you try to be professional, it does grind you down.
Synonyms
oppress, persecute, tyrannize, suppress

grind on

Continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way.
the rail talks grind on
Example sentencesExamples
- So many copies were made that not all of them were destroyed as the centuries ground on.
- If the economy does not get going soon and if the guerrilla war grinds on then the tide could easily turn.
- His troubles began in February 2000 but the case against him continues to grind on.
- Even as the proceedings grind on, it is increasingly apparent that no one has any clear idea of where the inquiry is headed or indeed where it will end up.
- He must have been suffering agonies of worry as the weeks grind on and foot and mouth continues to ravage the land.
Synonyms
drag on, go on and on, plod on, pass slowly, move slowly, creep along, limp along, crawl, hang heavy, go at a snail's pace, wear on, go on too long

grind something out

Produce something dull or tedious slowly and laboriously.
I must grind out some more fiction
Example sentencesExamples
- He growled slowly, seemingly having great difficulty grinding the words out.
- The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business.
- Gradually, however, productivity improvements have been ground out and Germany's relative unit labour costs have fallen.
- I've had six years at this club and the situation we're in now is terrible but we've just got to keep going and grind results out.
- These last couple of months, I'll grind it out and see if I'm in the plans for next year or not.
- He said: ‘I know it wasn't all that pretty but we keep grinding the results out even though we are missing some good players.’
- I think there's a realization, obviously, that, look, we're going to go through a process, and it's in the courts now, and the machinery is going to have to grind it out, and it's going to take some time.
- Anne McCaffrey, bless her ink-stained fingers, keeps grinding them out.
- Right now I'd be grinding it out on Wall Street and probably hating life.
- We ground it out in the trenches, creating the identity of the magazine issue by issue.
Synonyms
produce, generate, crank out, turn out

Origin

Old English grindan, probably of Germanic origin. Although no cognates are known, it may be distantly related to Latin frendere ‘rub away, gnash’.

单词	grind
释义	Definition of grind in English: grind verbground ɡrʌɪndɡraɪnd 1with object Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it. grind some black pepper over the salad she ground up the rice prior to boiling Example sentencesExamples With so many Mexican items in stores across the US, you can make your own chili powder by grinding your own spices. The bark is ground to an off-white powder that has a sweet taste and a pinelike odor. Then the corn is coarsely ground to break the germ loose from other kernel components. For the chicken, using a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and salt to form a paste. Finally, drizzle the whole lot with olive oil and grind black pepper over everything. You take a handful of each herb, put it in a mortar, and grind it to a powder. The bones are cleaned, toasted in oil and then ground into a powder. She took to grinding the medication into powder and snorting it. After harvesting, the corn needs to be ground into flour. The dried plant material was weighed and then ground finely using a ball mill. In a mortar and pestle, grind the chilli, salt and shrimp paste. If the root is ground to a powder, as some growers do, it is then boiled to extract the liquorice essence. He grinds pigments to a fine powder, then brushes them onto wet plaster, following the outlines of his sketches transferred earlier. The bark of this tree is collected fresh, well before the sunrise, and is ground up to make a herbal preparation. Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water. Leaf samples were ground in small mortars in liquid nitrogen. Addicts either swallow the tablets or grind them into powder that can be inhaled or turned into liquid and injected. People grind the seed and use the powder to boil the tea. Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn. Then the blackened beans are ground in a mortar. Synonyms crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, pestle, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble technical triturate, comminute archaic levigate, bray 1.1 Sharpen, smooth, or produce (something) by crushing or by friction. power from a waterwheel was used to grind cutlery Example sentencesExamples He studies, grinds and polishes Japanese swords and daggers for sale to museums and private collectors across the world. The generator is a compound surface grinder used to grind curves in the surface of the lens In both operations, cutters had to be removed from the arbors and ground to resharpen. Using a diamond grinder, she ground some of the bones flush with the concrete surface. Unaided by some kind of equipment, a person cannot grind down the surface of a rock; that's why a field geologist carries a hammer. Some people actually shave or grind down parts of their skates so that they can fit larger wheels. After cooling slowly, the piece is then ground to remove excess enamel, and polished. The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened. Only in the black leaf bases did they reach the surfaces exposed by grinding off the charcoal. Next, Tinsley Laboratories will grind and polish the mirrors and finally Ball builds the telescope. When carving the background areas, one must be careful not to grind away too much white stone. Synonyms sharpen, whet, make sharp/sharper, hone, file, strop smooth, polish, sand, sandpaper 1.2 Operate (a mill or machine) by turning the handle. she was grinding a coffee mill Example sentencesExamples We had no bread for quite a while, so we got wheat berries, and took turns grinding a coffee mill with our hands. Anyone who likes preparing a good meal has undoubtedly had the experience of enthusiastically shaking or grinding the pepper-mill over a pot only to find themselves in a sneezing fit moments later. 1.3no object (of a mill or machine) work with a crushing action. the old mill was grinding again Example sentencesExamples But the mills of the gods sometimes grind in an unknown's favour. It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding. A handful of huts, a small mill grinding by the stream's edge, a place of twenty ploughs, no more. The company compares it to a turning machine that grinds. And those mills grind remorselessly and cruelly at times. Ever since the Americans built up the Dominican sugar industry in the 1920s, it is Haitian muscle that has kept the mills grinding and the cane cut. Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day. But last week the machinery at last began to grind in a legal process which has been delayed by nine years of political wrangling. At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring. The wheels of the mill are driven by water from the stream and as they turn the whole mill starts to grind and shake with sieves, wheels, drive belts all tied into the water power. 2Rub or cause to rub together gratingly. no object tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other with object he keeps me awake at night, grinding his teeth Example sentencesExamples Eleanor clutched a handful of sand, grinding her teeth audibly. My teeth grind together, and my hackles rise, and I want to find the radio or whatever it is and rip it to bits. As we get closer to town, the bus begins making stops more frequently, the wheels grinding angrily on their worn bearings each time. She closed her eyes, her teeth grinding together. I heard stone grinding against stone and slowly the bookcase slid aside revealing a spiral staircase. Two plates meet just off Sumatra's coast, grinding together and sending tremors through the region. Excruciating backache feels like the bones grinding together. They rode the rest of the way in silence, listening to the gears grinding as they were lowered down. Rudolf could hear the metal of the wheels grind against the metal of the tracks. The US and European economies can be regarded as two giant tectonic plates that grind against each other. Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously. I could feel my teeth grinding against one another. The discs act as cushions that prevent the bones of the spine from grinding together, and also as small shock absorbers. For instance, the dentist might ask your parents if they hear you grinding your teeth when you're asleep. Rochester is a study in contrasts, a medium-size city that seems to sit astride the fault line where the new economy grinds up against the old. When she reached the hill, she really began pushing herself, her wheels grinding against the hard, rocky ground. Where these plates meet, they grind together, creating earthquakes. The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together. It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone. The brain keeps trying to compensate, the teeth grind, and the whole jaw tenses up. Synonyms rub, grate, scrape, rasp gnash, grit 2.1with object Press or rub (something) into a surface. she ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray Example sentencesExamples He dropped his cigarette and ground it with his foot, the very motion making me ripple. Sebastian took one last puff on his cigarette before plucking it from his mouth, and grinding it into the ashtray. When we had new Tarmac laid on our drive, people were not only driving through it but actually grinding their tyres into the newly-finished surface, in spite of the warning signs. Kienan tossed his cigarette away and ground it into the deck. In time this will be ground into the path and form a solid long lasting surface, but currently it can be like cycling through sand. Jenny bent down to grind out her cigarette stub in the lank grass and then tossed it with a stone-skipping twist of her white wrist into the tangled shrubbery. 2.2no object, with adverbial Move noisily and laboriously. the truck was grinding slowly up the hill Example sentencesExamples The elevator grinds loudly, about to reach the limit of its ascent. We've descended with him in an old cage lift that grinds and lurches down a shaft sunk in 1885. Three-wheeled beach vans selling everything from cigarettes to cakes grind their way through the sand. The platform rose, grinding loudly as it went, reminding the girl that there was something else that needed fixing besides her bike. He can then grind slowly westwards, picking up centres as the rest fight amongst themselves. Remember, the wheels of the justice system can grind very slowly, at least in the US. I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province. The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant. That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise. It was a slow day at work on the Monday before Melbourne Cup and the wheels of the Victorian bureaucracy were grinding slower than usual. Synonyms move laboriously, strain, struggle, drag oneself, fight one's way, labour chug North American informal putter 3informal no object (of a dancer) gyrate the hips erotically. go-go girls grinding to blaring disco Example sentencesExamples People were grinding, and just dancing, holding beers in their hands. I was not surprised as I saw Melissa grinding with Alex on the dance floor. Both get to grind against some scantily clad girls. He escorted me down a narrow hall and back to the party, where I was met with many people dancing and grinding to some music that got on my nerves. People were bumping and grinding together on the dance floor and others were either making out in a free corner or sitting and trying to have a conversation. Jude glanced around, seeing Andy grinding with some girl who was not Claudia. I actually ended up dancing - grinding - with my Aunt Carolyn's date, Jake. Some guy moved in behind me and started to grind against me. By the time I caught up to her, it was to behold the sight of her and Jake making out and grinding to the music. Very simple, very direct, able to make you move and grind. Christina and Toby stood up, went to the dance floor and started grinding. Everyone was dancing and grinding in very unusual ways. Jack knew that Angela wasn't the type of girl to grind while dancing, and he doubted whether she knew how to. She crawled on top of him and started dancing and grinding slowly on top of him. Soon she's balancing dance lessons with recording sessions and grinding with boy-band superstars, even her lifelong crush. Although the video did have a lot of ‘bloke appeal’, with the singer and her dancers grinding and gyrating from start to finish, I got the impression that it was all her idea. He laughed and moved to grind with the scarily leggy female. 3.1British dated, vulgar slang Have sexual intercourse. noun ɡrʌɪndɡraɪnd 1A crushing or grating sound or motion. the crunch and grind of bulldozers figurative the slow grind of the US legal system Example sentencesExamples People discover they are capable of things they had hardly dreamt of, and realise talents and potentials previously crushed by the grind of capitalism. Tempos run from a zillion beats per minute to a slow, torturous grind. The sound of the hatch opening was replaced with a loud grind at the front of the pod. He captures the endless grind of urban progress with background noises such as busses and television dominating the soundscape. The slow grind of American law has produced indictments. The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges. "We use half a tank getting up the Kaimais and then we have the slow grind down the other side, " he said. Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness. Hypnotic grinds and guitar driven loops are this bands arsenal. Yet we know that not even the best technology, unattended, stands a chance against the slow grind of nature. The car stopped with a ding, then letting out a grind as it began to slide to its left. The song seamlessly carries on with 20 singers and the simple grind of a handful of chords. The uncomfortably familiar grind and click of a rampaging computer sounded again, the numbers beginning anew. The leaves splintered and crunched with a profound grind: amplified by the silence of the wood. 1.1 The size of ground particles. only the right grind gives you all the fine flavour Example sentencesExamples Visitors can choose either roasted coffee beans, medium grind coffee, fine blend coffee or cappuccino in different sizes and packets. This grind we call a Turkish Grind which is the finest grind yet. The flour texture is a medium grind perfectly suited for my breads, cookies and muffins. The motor will not clog up with a very fine grind. 2Hard dull work. relief from the daily grind Example sentencesExamples But it is a tough grind for the animals and the men. A friend of mine has escaped the daily grind for a jaunt to Paris. Some say the grind of the season will break you down mentally. Work is turning into a grind with 3 projects on the go. Such preseason work will pay off through the grind of a long season. It's time to take a break from the normal grind, slow down, take it easy, and of course… listen to relaxing music. For most working women, it is a long, hard grind. Her working life is a relentless grind, just as it is for many working people. Escaping from their day-to-day grind was the sole reason for signing up in the first place. His decision to give up the daily grind was made when he took 10 weeks off in the summer of 2001 to ponder the future. Others ditch the daily grind for a slower-paced life. She feels that her job has freed her from both the grind of the touring lifestyle and pressures she would face to tailor her work to the tastes of out-of-town presenters. I understand that retirement can be a major shock to the system if you have been used to working for your living and coping with the pressures and aggravations of the daily grind. Feel the need to escape the daily grind? Each worker has a tale of hard work, staff shortages and the daily grind to survive. All the worries, all the tears and anger and stress, the relentless grind of her life - gone. It was a hell of a lot of fun for a while, but eventually turned into a grind. It's like taking a step away from the daily grind, the hard slog, the trials and the tribulations so you can focus on nothing but having fun for three whole days. The work should pay off during the grind of August and September. And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman. Synonyms chore, slog, travail drudgery, toil, hard work, donkey work, labour, slavery, exertion informal fag, sweat 2.1US informal An excessively hard-working student. Example sentencesExamples In gymnastics, like in school, there are grinds who learn everything by rote. In a class full of grinds that sent more than eighty kids on to Ivy League schools each year, he finished first, effortlessly, and sailed through Harvard with equal ease. She is an insufferably sensible young woman a grind at school, hiding behind thick glasses and inside bulky cardigans. You sound like a total grind. Like you never skipped a class the day after a party. About 1957, MIT undergraduates began referring to ‘gnurds,’ studious grinds, especially in science and engineering. 2.2Irish A private tuition class. experienced teacher offers grinds in Maths and Irish, to all levels Example sentencesExamples The rich can afford to send their children to fee-paying schools and then top that up with grinds to get them into the best courses. Expensive grinds and extra tutorial classes also feature in today's lifestyle of even the youngest students. The top schools cater for a cohort of students whose parents can afford to pay for grinds and revision courses. If even half of Leaving Cert students were paying for grinds at this rate of €45 per hour, it would make the industry worth €50 million a year. Therefore, in a school that sends a large percentage of its students to university, the majority of those students may have had grinds. 3informal A dancer's erotic gyration of the hips. a bump and grind Example sentencesExamples How often do we get to see a bump and grind performed on pointe? A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds. Diana, who had gotten up from the table to fetch another biscuit, did an impromptu bump and grind. Two women did concentrated bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds. She smiled seductively when she saw him, and walked over, swinging her hips in a slow grind. Also notable was the choreography of dirty grinds and salsa steps, which were pulled off with equally impressive aplomb. 3.1British dated, vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse. Phrases grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt) Slow down gradually and then stop completely. in summer traffic all but grinds to a halt the surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt Example sentencesExamples It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt. By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt. We came to a grinding halt on the side of the road to find petrol leaking from the bottom of the carburettor. The bus then slowly ground to a halt. Thanks to some quick measure taken by the authorities, the work on the project which had come to a grinding halt once, has finally reached the completion stage. Less than an hour before, traffic ground to a halt when a truck had a blow-out. Motorists are concerned that city centre traffic could grind to a halt when the street is closed from October 31. My exercise regime came to a grinding halt about a month ago when I got a knee effusion out of nowhere. Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said. We breezed into the airport, got our tickets, cleared customs - and came to a grinding halt at immigration. Phrasal Verbs grind away Work or study hard. he began to grind away in a job as a research assistant Example sentencesExamples He has continued to grind away at the project to which he dedicated himself more than a decade ago. It's going to take a bunch of us grinding away at it full-time to make this stuff work. It really is encouraging to the guys who have been here grinding away. That is the Third Division, you have to battle and grind away. It's more flexible, it's clean, your're scheduled to meet your clients and left alone with them, instead of grinding away to meet quotas and schedules with bosses looking over your shoulder. You just have to keep grinding away and hope that it happens for you. Some people think that the only practical way to work is to take a single task and grind away until it is done, and then look around to determine what is the right next piece of work to do. It's quite depressing for the kind of writers who grind away at it for years sort of honing their craft and then do the book. You use it only when you feel that the other side is simply grinding away to get the last penny off your price. Keeping up the illusion of grinding away at the same old job isn't enough, however. grind someone down Wear someone down with continuous harsh treatment. mundane everyday things which just grind people down Example sentencesExamples The conditions of Indonesian women in 1900 were atrocious; they were ground down by their social position in general, by the aristocracy and by Dutch imperialism. A prominent public figure, she was also the survivor of an unhappy family, and private sadness had ground her down by the time she reached her 50s. I've been doing this kind of thing for more than two years now, and it's grinding me down. The job was grinding him down without making him rich. I suspect they were trying to grind me down into submission. ‘We are fighting a continual battle and eventually it grinds you down,’ she said. As much as you try to be professional, it does grind you down. We know that his years of drudgery have ground him down. And I agree, the pain does grind us down and is something that can't really be explained in words. Synonyms oppress, persecute, tyrannize, suppress grind on Continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way. the rail talks grind on Example sentencesExamples Even as the proceedings grind on, it is increasingly apparent that no one has any clear idea of where the inquiry is headed or indeed where it will end up. His troubles began in February 2000 but the case against him continues to grind on. If the economy does not get going soon and if the guerrilla war grinds on then the tide could easily turn. So many copies were made that not all of them were destroyed as the centuries ground on. He must have been suffering agonies of worry as the weeks grind on and foot and mouth continues to ravage the land. Synonyms drag on, go on and on, plod on, pass slowly, move slowly, creep along, limp along, crawl, hang heavy, go at a snail's pace, wear on, go on too long grind something out Produce something dull or tedious slowly and laboriously. the band was grinding out the inevitable summer songs Example sentencesExamples I think there's a realization, obviously, that, look, we're going to go through a process, and it's in the courts now, and the machinery is going to have to grind it out, and it's going to take some time. Anne McCaffrey, bless her ink-stained fingers, keeps grinding them out. Gradually, however, productivity improvements have been ground out and Germany's relative unit labour costs have fallen. I've had six years at this club and the situation we're in now is terrible but we've just got to keep going and grind results out. These last couple of months, I'll grind it out and see if I'm in the plans for next year or not. The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business. He growled slowly, seemingly having great difficulty grinding the words out. He said: ‘I know it wasn't all that pretty but we keep grinding the results out even though we are missing some good players.’ We ground it out in the trenches, creating the identity of the magazine issue by issue. Right now I'd be grinding it out on Wall Street and probably hating life. Synonyms produce, generate, crank out, turn out Origin Old English grindan, probably of Germanic origin. Although no cognates are known, it may be distantly related to Latin frendere 'rub away, gnash'. Rhymes affined, behind, bind, blind, find, hind, humankind, interwind, kind, mankind, mind, nonaligned, resigned, rind, unaligned, unassigned, unconfined, undefined, undersigned, undesigned, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, wynd verb.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of grind in US English: grind verbɡraɪndɡrīnd 1with object Reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it. grind some black pepper over the salad they grind up fish for fertilizer Example sentencesExamples Then the corn is coarsely ground to break the germ loose from other kernel components. Tenant farmers who toiled on the estate were obliged to use the mill to grind their corn. Then the blackened beans are ground in a mortar. The dried plant material was weighed and then ground finely using a ball mill. You take a handful of each herb, put it in a mortar, and grind it to a powder. After harvesting, the corn needs to be ground into flour. In a mortar and pestle, grind the chilli, salt and shrimp paste. Leaf samples were ground in small mortars in liquid nitrogen. Finally, drizzle the whole lot with olive oil and grind black pepper over everything. If the root is ground to a powder, as some growers do, it is then boiled to extract the liquorice essence. For the chicken, using a mortar and pestle, grind garlic and salt to form a paste. The bark of this tree is collected fresh, well before the sunrise, and is ground up to make a herbal preparation. Addicts either swallow the tablets or grind them into powder that can be inhaled or turned into liquid and injected. People grind the seed and use the powder to boil the tea. The bones are cleaned, toasted in oil and then ground into a powder. She took to grinding the medication into powder and snorting it. Millet is ground into flour and made into porridge by boiling it in water. He grinds pigments to a fine powder, then brushes them onto wet plaster, following the outlines of his sketches transferred earlier. The bark is ground to an off-white powder that has a sweet taste and a pinelike odor. With so many Mexican items in stores across the US, you can make your own chili powder by grinding your own spices. Synonyms crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, pestle, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble 1.1 Sharpen, smooth, or produce (something) by crushing or by friction. power from a waterwheel was used to grind cutlery Example sentencesExamples Using a diamond grinder, she ground some of the bones flush with the concrete surface. Unaided by some kind of equipment, a person cannot grind down the surface of a rock; that's why a field geologist carries a hammer. When carving the background areas, one must be careful not to grind away too much white stone. He studies, grinds and polishes Japanese swords and daggers for sale to museums and private collectors across the world. The large upright stone also bears the marks of where new adze heads were ground and sharpened. Only in the black leaf bases did they reach the surfaces exposed by grinding off the charcoal. After cooling slowly, the piece is then ground to remove excess enamel, and polished. The generator is a compound surface grinder used to grind curves in the surface of the lens Some people actually shave or grind down parts of their skates so that they can fit larger wheels. Next, Tinsley Laboratories will grind and polish the mirrors and finally Ball builds the telescope. In both operations, cutters had to be removed from the arbors and ground to resharpen. Synonyms sharpen, whet, make sharp, make sharper, hone, file, strop 1.2 Operate (a mill or machine) by turning the handle. she was grinding a coffee mill Example sentencesExamples We had no bread for quite a while, so we got wheat berries, and took turns grinding a coffee mill with our hands. Anyone who likes preparing a good meal has undoubtedly had the experience of enthusiastically shaking or grinding the pepper-mill over a pot only to find themselves in a sneezing fit moments later. 1.3no object (of a mill or machine) work with a crushing action. the old mill was grinding again Example sentencesExamples It is curious to imagine what chaff might be produced if these two millstones ever came together, and started grinding. At 6am the garbage truck makes its way down the street, brakes grinding and compactor whirring. Its engine grinds in the background, twenty-four hours a day. But last week the machinery at last began to grind in a legal process which has been delayed by nine years of political wrangling. And those mills grind remorselessly and cruelly at times. Ever since the Americans built up the Dominican sugar industry in the 1920s, it is Haitian muscle that has kept the mills grinding and the cane cut. The company compares it to a turning machine that grinds. But the mills of the gods sometimes grind in an unknown's favour. A handful of huts, a small mill grinding by the stream's edge, a place of twenty ploughs, no more. The wheels of the mill are driven by water from the stream and as they turn the whole mill starts to grind and shake with sieves, wheels, drive belts all tied into the water power. 2Rub or cause to rub together gratingly. no object tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other with object he keeps me awake at night, grinding his teeth Example sentencesExamples Two plates meet just off Sumatra's coast, grinding together and sending tremors through the region. I heard stone grinding against stone and slowly the bookcase slid aside revealing a spiral staircase. The air around him slowly grew warmer, and he began to hear the heavy clunk and crunch of metal slabs grinding together. It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone. The US and European economies can be regarded as two giant tectonic plates that grind against each other. Excruciating backache feels like the bones grinding together. She closed her eyes, her teeth grinding together. Rochester is a study in contrasts, a medium-size city that seems to sit astride the fault line where the new economy grinds up against the old. As we get closer to town, the bus begins making stops more frequently, the wheels grinding angrily on their worn bearings each time. For instance, the dentist might ask your parents if they hear you grinding your teeth when you're asleep. Where these plates meet, they grind together, creating earthquakes. I could feel my teeth grinding against one another. They rode the rest of the way in silence, listening to the gears grinding as they were lowered down. My teeth grind together, and my hackles rise, and I want to find the radio or whatever it is and rip it to bits. Simon growled and clenched his fist, his teeth grinding together furiously. The brain keeps trying to compensate, the teeth grind, and the whole jaw tenses up. Rudolf could hear the metal of the wheels grind against the metal of the tracks. When she reached the hill, she really began pushing herself, her wheels grinding against the hard, rocky ground. The discs act as cushions that prevent the bones of the spine from grinding together, and also as small shock absorbers. Eleanor clutched a handful of sand, grinding her teeth audibly. Synonyms rub, grate, scrape, rasp gnash, grit 2.1no object, with adverbial Move noisily and laboriously, especially against a countering force. the truck was grinding slowly up the hill Example sentencesExamples We've descended with him in an old cage lift that grinds and lurches down a shaft sunk in 1885. The justice system grinds slowly and gets off to many a false start, but it ends up triumphant. The platform rose, grinding loudly as it went, reminding the girl that there was something else that needed fixing besides her bike. The elevator grinds loudly, about to reach the limit of its ascent. That horrid smell, that horrid noise; the hissing of the wheels grinding over the asphalt road, that drilling noise. Three-wheeled beach vans selling everything from cigarettes to cakes grind their way through the sand. He can then grind slowly westwards, picking up centres as the rest fight amongst themselves. It was a slow day at work on the Monday before Melbourne Cup and the wheels of the Victorian bureaucracy were grinding slower than usual. Remember, the wheels of the justice system can grind very slowly, at least in the US. I would sit on the roofs of listing, overloaded trucks grinding up and down hundreds of switchbacks across the gorge-scarred Yunnan province. Synonyms move laboriously, strain, struggle, drag oneself, fight one's way, labour 3informal no object (of a dancer) rotate the hips. go-go girls grinding to blaring disco Example sentencesExamples He laughed and moved to grind with the scarily leggy female. Soon she's balancing dance lessons with recording sessions and grinding with boy-band superstars, even her lifelong crush. People were bumping and grinding together on the dance floor and others were either making out in a free corner or sitting and trying to have a conversation. I actually ended up dancing - grinding - with my Aunt Carolyn's date, Jake. Both get to grind against some scantily clad girls. By the time I caught up to her, it was to behold the sight of her and Jake making out and grinding to the music. She crawled on top of him and started dancing and grinding slowly on top of him. Christina and Toby stood up, went to the dance floor and started grinding. Everyone was dancing and grinding in very unusual ways. Jack knew that Angela wasn't the type of girl to grind while dancing, and he doubted whether she knew how to. Some guy moved in behind me and started to grind against me. Although the video did have a lot of ‘bloke appeal’, with the singer and her dancers grinding and gyrating from start to finish, I got the impression that it was all her idea. Jude glanced around, seeing Andy grinding with some girl who was not Claudia. He escorted me down a narrow hall and back to the party, where I was met with many people dancing and grinding to some music that got on my nerves. People were grinding, and just dancing, holding beers in their hands. Very simple, very direct, able to make you move and grind. I was not surprised as I saw Melissa grinding with Alex on the dance floor. nounɡraɪndɡrīnd 1A crushing or grating sound or motion. the crunch and grind of bulldozers figurative the slow grind of the US legal system Example sentencesExamples Tempos run from a zillion beats per minute to a slow, torturous grind. The woman is a predatory siren whose fierce, angular movements are accompanied by the creaks and grinds of unoiled door hinges. He captures the endless grind of urban progress with background noises such as busses and television dominating the soundscape. Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness. The sound of the hatch opening was replaced with a loud grind at the front of the pod. The slow grind of American law has produced indictments. People discover they are capable of things they had hardly dreamt of, and realise talents and potentials previously crushed by the grind of capitalism. The song seamlessly carries on with 20 singers and the simple grind of a handful of chords. The leaves splintered and crunched with a profound grind: amplified by the silence of the wood. The uncomfortably familiar grind and click of a rampaging computer sounded again, the numbers beginning anew. "We use half a tank getting up the Kaimais and then we have the slow grind down the other side, " he said. Hypnotic grinds and guitar driven loops are this bands arsenal. The car stopped with a ding, then letting out a grind as it began to slide to its left. Yet we know that not even the best technology, unattended, stands a chance against the slow grind of nature. 1.1 The size of ground particles. only the right grind gives you all the fine flavor Example sentencesExamples The flour texture is a medium grind perfectly suited for my breads, cookies and muffins. The motor will not clog up with a very fine grind. This grind we call a Turkish Grind which is the finest grind yet. Visitors can choose either roasted coffee beans, medium grind coffee, fine blend coffee or cappuccino in different sizes and packets. 2Hard dull work. relief from the daily grind Example sentencesExamples Others ditch the daily grind for a slower-paced life. It was a hell of a lot of fun for a while, but eventually turned into a grind. For most working women, it is a long, hard grind. Some say the grind of the season will break you down mentally. I understand that retirement can be a major shock to the system if you have been used to working for your living and coping with the pressures and aggravations of the daily grind. But it is a tough grind for the animals and the men. Such preseason work will pay off through the grind of a long season. Feel the need to escape the daily grind? Escaping from their day-to-day grind was the sole reason for signing up in the first place. All the worries, all the tears and anger and stress, the relentless grind of her life - gone. Work is turning into a grind with 3 projects on the go. Each worker has a tale of hard work, staff shortages and the daily grind to survive. It's like taking a step away from the daily grind, the hard slog, the trials and the tribulations so you can focus on nothing but having fun for three whole days. And it gave his life a drastic turn, pulling him away from the ulcerating grind of a big-city businessman. The work should pay off during the grind of August and September. It's time to take a break from the normal grind, slow down, take it easy, and of course… listen to relaxing music. His decision to give up the daily grind was made when he took 10 weeks off in the summer of 2001 to ponder the future. A friend of mine has escaped the daily grind for a jaunt to Paris. She feels that her job has freed her from both the grind of the touring lifestyle and pressures she would face to tailor her work to the tastes of out-of-town presenters. Her working life is a relentless grind, just as it is for many working people. Synonyms chore, slog, travail 2.1US informal An excessively hard-working student. Example sentencesExamples You sound like a total grind. Like you never skipped a class the day after a party. In a class full of grinds that sent more than eighty kids on to Ivy League schools each year, he finished first, effortlessly, and sailed through Harvard with equal ease. In gymnastics, like in school, there are grinds who learn everything by rote. She is an insufferably sensible young woman a grind at school, hiding behind thick glasses and inside bulky cardigans. About 1957, MIT undergraduates began referring to ‘gnurds,’ studious grinds, especially in science and engineering. 3informal A dancer's rotary movement of the hips. a bump and grind Example sentencesExamples Also notable was the choreography of dirty grinds and salsa steps, which were pulled off with equally impressive aplomb. How often do we get to see a bump and grind performed on pointe? She smiled seductively when she saw him, and walked over, swinging her hips in a slow grind. A voluptuous black girl in leather and a thicket of beaded dreadlocks jumped in front of him and mirrored his strokes, his bumps and grinds. Two women did concentrated bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds, bumps and grinds. Diana, who had gotten up from the table to fetch another biscuit, did an impromptu bump and grind. Phrases grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt) Move more and more slowly and then stop. Example sentencesExamples Motorists are concerned that city centre traffic could grind to a halt when the street is closed from October 31. We breezed into the airport, got our tickets, cleared customs - and came to a grinding halt at immigration. The bus then slowly ground to a halt. Less than an hour before, traffic ground to a halt when a truck had a blow-out. By the time they drove two more blocks, traffic had ground to a halt. My exercise regime came to a grinding halt about a month ago when I got a knee effusion out of nowhere. It was roughly at this time I noticed that whenever I spoke emotionally, my speech came slower and slower until grinding to a halt. Meanwhile, traffic ground to a halt on many major routes due to speed restrictions and fallen trees, police said. We came to a grinding halt on the side of the road to find petrol leaking from the bottom of the carburettor. Thanks to some quick measure taken by the authorities, the work on the project which had come to a grinding halt once, has finally reached the completion stage. Phrasal Verbs grind away Work or study hard. Example sentencesExamples It's going to take a bunch of us grinding away at it full-time to make this stuff work. It's quite depressing for the kind of writers who grind away at it for years sort of honing their craft and then do the book. It really is encouraging to the guys who have been here grinding away. He has continued to grind away at the project to which he dedicated himself more than a decade ago. Keeping up the illusion of grinding away at the same old job isn't enough, however. That is the Third Division, you have to battle and grind away. Some people think that the only practical way to work is to take a single task and grind away until it is done, and then look around to determine what is the right next piece of work to do. It's more flexible, it's clean, your're scheduled to meet your clients and left alone with them, instead of grinding away to meet quotas and schedules with bosses looking over your shoulder. You use it only when you feel that the other side is simply grinding away to get the last penny off your price. You just have to keep grinding away and hope that it happens for you. grind someone down Wear someone down with continuous harsh or oppressive treatment. mundane everyday things which just grind people down Example sentencesExamples The job was grinding him down without making him rich. And I agree, the pain does grind us down and is something that can't really be explained in words. We know that his years of drudgery have ground him down. A prominent public figure, she was also the survivor of an unhappy family, and private sadness had ground her down by the time she reached her 50s. I suspect they were trying to grind me down into submission. I've been doing this kind of thing for more than two years now, and it's grinding me down. The conditions of Indonesian women in 1900 were atrocious; they were ground down by their social position in general, by the aristocracy and by Dutch imperialism. ‘We are fighting a continual battle and eventually it grinds you down,’ she said. As much as you try to be professional, it does grind you down. Synonyms oppress, persecute, tyrannize, suppress grind on Continue for a long time in a wearying or tedious way. the rail talks grind on Example sentencesExamples So many copies were made that not all of them were destroyed as the centuries ground on. If the economy does not get going soon and if the guerrilla war grinds on then the tide could easily turn. His troubles began in February 2000 but the case against him continues to grind on. Even as the proceedings grind on, it is increasingly apparent that no one has any clear idea of where the inquiry is headed or indeed where it will end up. He must have been suffering agonies of worry as the weeks grind on and foot and mouth continues to ravage the land. Synonyms drag on, go on and on, plod on, pass slowly, move slowly, creep along, limp along, crawl, hang heavy, go at a snail's pace, wear on, go on too long grind something out Produce something dull or tedious slowly and laboriously. I must grind out some more fiction Example sentencesExamples He growled slowly, seemingly having great difficulty grinding the words out. The entrepreneur who is on the verge of dismal failure, grinds it out and builds a successful business. Gradually, however, productivity improvements have been ground out and Germany's relative unit labour costs have fallen. I've had six years at this club and the situation we're in now is terrible but we've just got to keep going and grind results out. These last couple of months, I'll grind it out and see if I'm in the plans for next year or not. He said: ‘I know it wasn't all that pretty but we keep grinding the results out even though we are missing some good players.’ I think there's a realization, obviously, that, look, we're going to go through a process, and it's in the courts now, and the machinery is going to have to grind it out, and it's going to take some time. Anne McCaffrey, bless her ink-stained fingers, keeps grinding them out. Right now I'd be grinding it out on Wall Street and probably hating life. We ground it out in the trenches, creating the identity of the magazine issue by issue. Synonyms produce, generate, crank out, turn out Origin Old English grindan, probably of Germanic origin. Although no cognates are known, it may be distantly related to Latin frendere ‘rub away, gnash’. verb.1 phr. phr.v.
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