grind
Other forms: grinding; grinds; grinded
If you like to grind your own coffee beans, it means you prefer to buy whole beans, put them in an electric grinder, and pulverize them into tiny bits before you brew your coffee.
When you grind something, you mill or crush it into smaller pieces, the way you grind pepper or grind a grain into flour. Two things that rub up against each other also grind together, which is what your teeth do if you grind them in your sleep. Informally, grind also means boring, tedious work, often in the sense of "grind away" or "the daily grind." This sense of grind was invented in the 1800s as college slang.
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reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
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press or grind with a crushing noise
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created by grinding
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shape or form by grinding
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make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
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the act of grinding to a powder or dustsynonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization
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the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
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hard monotonous routine work
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work hard
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dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlacedtype of:dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toemove in a pattern; usually to musical accompaniment; do or perform a dance
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an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
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