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Grind   /graɪnd/   Listen
verb
Grind  v. t.  (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)  
1.
To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. "Take the millstones, and grind meal."
2.
To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
3.
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. "To grind the subject or defraud the prince."
4.
To study hard for examination; commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. (College Slang)


Grind  v. i.  (past & past part. ground; pres. part. grinding)  
1.
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. "Send thee Into the common prison, there to grind."
2.
To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
3.
To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
4.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
5.
To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.


noun
Grind  n.  
1.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
2.
Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. (Colloq.)
3.
A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. (College Slang)





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"Grind" Quotes from Famous Books



... an axe of her own to grind, ingratiatingly). "Oh yes, papa, it does suit you. I never saw you look ...
— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton
... I've got work to do at the mill," replied Abel, as he rose from his chair. "Solomon Hatch sent me his corn to grind and he's coming over to ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow
... hoisted an ensign at the main, a pre-arranged signal, and so all hands again went out and got her ice anchors; she slipped the ends of the wire hawsers holding them and stood out into the Sound. The ice was breaking up fast, a swell rolling in causing the big floes to grind and crunch in rather alarming fashion. Fortunately, Pennell had raised steam, which was just as well for before he got clear the ship was only half a cable from Cape Evans, which lay dead to leeward—she was well out of it. We took the wire hawsers, ...
— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans
... opposing impulses: since no reasoning he could apply to Rosamond seemed likely to conquer her assent, he wanted to smash and grind some object on which he could at least produce an impression, or else to tell her brutally that he was master, and she must obey. But he not only dreaded the effect of such extremities on their mutual life—he had a growing dread of Rosamond's quiet elusive obstinacy, which ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... so,"—then, as she still looked intently at him, "you have startled me. I have become such a stupid grind, I guess I need waking up. I will commune with myself, as I have never done before, and let you know what I discover," he ...
— The Boy from Hollow Hut - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains • Isla May Mullins


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