n. the act of grinding to a powder or dust

n. hard monotonous routine work

n. an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

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

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

v. press or grind with a crunching noise

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

v. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

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

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"

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

n. excessive use of drugs

n. a job involving drudgery and confinement

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

v. bite off very small pieces; "She nibbled on her cracker"

v. scrape with a rasp

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

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

v. strike sharply, as in some sports

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

v. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

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

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

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

v. tear into shreds

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

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

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

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

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

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

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

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

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

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

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

v. become granular

v. attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

v. strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"

v. keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; "preserve the peace in the family"; "continue the family tradition"; "Carry on the old traditions"

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

v. continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures"

v. be persistent, refuse to stop; "he persisted to call me every night"; "The child persisted and kept asking questions"

v. insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; "Women should assert themselves more!"

v. be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

v. state categorically

v. to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"

v. have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"

v. rule a country as a tyrant