grind

v

1. whet, mill, kibble, stone, sand, sandpaper, pumice; grate, file, rasp, scrape, gride; smooth, polish, burnish, buff.

2. crush, bray, pound, beat, mash, smash, Sl. smush; pulverize, mortar, comminute, triturate, levigate, powder, granulate, shatter, crumble, disintegrate.

3. persecute, afflict, dragoon, abuse, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, scourge; castigate, chastise, punish; torture, molest, torment, plague, trouble, bother; harass, harry, hound, hector, pester, badger, Archaic. haggle; oppress, suppress, subdue, keep down.

4. grit, grate, rasp, gride, abrade, rub; scrape, scratch, clank, jangle, clash; screech, creak, screak, shrill, stridu-late, set one's teeth on edge.

5. crank, wind, coil, turn, rotate, wheel, winch, windlass.

6. produce, generate, turn out, bring forth; manufacture, make, create.

7.Often grind away

study, lucubrate, read, do schoolwork or homework, have one's nose buried in a book, burn the midnight oil, Brit. Sl. muzz; work, toil, labor, slave, drudge, Inf. sweat; keep one's nose to the grindstone or shoulder to the wheel or hand to the plow.

8.(of dancing) bump, swivel, rotate.

n

9. whetting, milling, stoning, sanding, sandpapering, pumicing; grating, filing, rasping, scraping; smoothing, polishing, burnishing, buffing; crushing, braying, pounding, beating, mashing, smashing, Sl. smushing; pulverization, pulverizing, mortaring, comminution, comminuting, trituration, triturating, levigation, levigating, powdering, granulation, granulating, shattering, crumbling, disintegration, disintegrating.

10. grating, rasp, gride, scrape, scratching, clank, jangle, clash; screech, creak, screak, stridor, stridula-tion.

11. drudgery, pain, travail, toil, labor, exertion