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grind

English

  1. 🔊 the act of grinding to a powder or dust
  2. 🔊 the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
    “a coarse grind of coffee”
  3. 🔊 an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  4. 🔊 hard monotonous routine work
  5. 🔊 reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    “grind the spices in a mortar”
  6. 🔊 shape or form by grinding
    “grind lenses for glasses and cameras”
  7. 🔊 created by grinding
    “grind designs into the glass bowl”
  8. 🔊 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
  9. 🔊 make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
    “grate one's teeth in anger”
  10. 🔊 press or grind with a crushing noise
  11. 🔊 work hard
    “She was digging away at her math homework”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 majar to grind
  2. 🔊 triturar to grind
  3. 🔊 moler to grind, to mill
  4. 🔊 machar to grind, to pound

Similar words

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