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grind

 
Noun grind has 3 senses
  1. swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
    --1 is a kind of learner, scholar, assimilator
    Derived form: verb grind4
  2. drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork - hard monotonous routine work
    --2 is a kind of labor, labour, toil
    Derived form: verb grind4
  3. grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation - the act of grinding to a powder or dust
    --3 is a kind of crush, crunch, compaction
    Derived forms: verb grind3, verb grind2, verb grind1
Verb grind has 5 senses
  1. crunch, cranch, craunch, grind - press or grind with a crunching noise
    --1 is one way to press
    Derived form: noun grind3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. grate, grind - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
    --2 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
    Derived forms: noun grind3, noun grinding2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
    --3 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
    Derived forms: noun grind3, noun grinder2, noun grinder3, noun grinding3, noun grinding1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  4. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
    --4 is one way to work, do work
    Derived forms: noun grind1, noun grind2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  5. grind - 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
    --5 is one way to
    dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
    Sample sentence:
    They grind
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