Grind
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of grinding to a powder or dust
(2) Hard monotonous routine work
(3) An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively
verb
(4) Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
"Grind the spices in a mortar"
"Mash the garlic"
(5) Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
"Grate one's teeth in anger"
(6) Press or grind with a crunching noise
(7) Shape or form by grinding
"Grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
(8) Created by grinding
"Grind designs into the glass bowl"
(9) 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
(10) Work hard
"She was digging away at her math homework"
"Lexicographers drudge all day long"
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Verb
- To make smaller by breaking with a device.
- To rotate the hips suggestively.
- To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- To repeat a task in a MMORPG or role-playing video game in order to gain levels or items.
- To eat.
- Eh, brah, let's go grind.