Grind

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Pronunciation

SAMPA: /'/
IPA: /'gɻaɪnd/

Verb

to grind (ground, ground)

To make smaller by breaking with a device

Translations

Dutch: malen
French: moudre; broyer
Indonesian: menggiling, mengasah, membubut,

menggeretakkan

WordNet Definitions

three

1. swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb -- (an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively).
2. drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork -- (hard monotonous routine work).
3. grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation -- (the act of grinding to a powder or dust).

five

1. crunch, cranch, craunch, grind -- (press or grind with a crunching noise).
2. grate, grind -- (make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger").
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").
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").
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).

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