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Noun grinding has 3 senses
- grinding - matter resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"
--1 is a kind of substance, matter
- grinding - a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
--2 is a kind of noise
- grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition - the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
--3 is a kind of friction, rubbing
Verb grind has 5 senses
- crunch, cranch, craunch, grind - press or grind with a crunching noise
--1 is one way to press
Sample sentences:
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Something ----s something
- grate, grind - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
--2 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentences:
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- grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
--3 is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
--4 is one way to work, do work
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- grind - 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
--5 is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Sample sentence:
They grind
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