grind
Nouns
- (n) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk,
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(n) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- a coarse grind of coffee
- (n) hard monotonous routine work donkeywork, drudgery, plodding,
- (n) the act of grinding to a powder or dust pulverisation, pulverization, mill,
Verbs
- (v) press or grind with a crushing noise cranch, craunch, crunch,
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(v) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- grate one's teeth in anger
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(v) work hard
- She was digging away at her math homework
- Lexicographers drudge all day long
- (v) 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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(v) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- grind the spices in a mortar
- mash the garlic
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(v) created by grinding
- grind designs into the glass bowl
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(v) shape or form by grinding
- grind lenses for glasses and cameras