grinding

Từ điển WordNet

    n.

  • matter resulting from the process of grinding

    vegetable grindings clogged the drain

  • a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
  • the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice; abrasion, attrition, detrition

    v.

  • press or grind with a crunching noise; crunch, cranch, craunch
  • make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; grate

    grate one's teeth in anger

  • reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; mash, crunch, bray, comminute

    grind the spices in a mortar

    mash the garlic

  • work hard; labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil

    She was digging away at her math homework

    Lexicographers drudge all day long

  • 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
  • created by grinding

    grind designs into the glass bowl

  • shape or form by grinding

    grind lenses for glasses and cameras

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

grinds|ground|grinding
syn.: crumble crush drudge edge file grate mash plod pulverize rub sharpen smooth squash study whet work