grind :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. hard monotonous routine work

v. shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

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

grate, grind

v. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute

v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

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parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed

n. concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours"

job, task, chore

n. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

rut, groove

n. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"

substance abuse, drug abuse, habit

n. excessive use of drugs

treadmill, salt mine

n. a job involving drudgery and confinement

slug, slog, swig

v. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

grit

v. clench together; "grit one's teeth"

beat, pound, thump

v. move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast"

squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze

v. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"

gnaw

v. bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"

nibble

v. bite gently; "The woman tenderly nibbled at her baby's ear"

rasp

v. scrape with a rasp

pulp

v. reduce to pulp; "pulp fruit"; "pulp wood"

powder, powderize, pulverize

v. make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; "pulverize the grains"

chop

v. strike sharply, as in some sports

crunch, munch

v. chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks"

pound, pound up

v. shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded"

crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse

v. fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

break down, crush

v. make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"

scrape, grate

v. scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"

shred, tear up, rip up

v. tear into shreds

slug, slog, swig

v. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out"

scratch, scrape, scratch up

v. cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

delete, cancel

v. remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list"

graze

v. break the skin (of a body part) by scraping; "She was grazed by the stray bullet"

remove, take away

v. get rid of something abstract; "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"

score, nock, mark

v. make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"

crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse

v. fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down"

granulate, grain

v. become granular

tyrannize, tyrannise, grind down

v. rule a country as a tyrant

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