MEANING
1. To crush or wear something down by rubbing or pressing it against a hard surface.
2. To move with rough friction or produce an abrasive grinding action or sound.
3. A prolonged, exhausting, or monotonous routine.
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Words that belong together
- grind bone
- grind to powder
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The mill ground the brittle material into powder.
Something ground the fragments against the stone.
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Word forms
- Base
- grind
- Past tense
- ground
- Past participle
- ground
- Present participle
- grinding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- grind
- Present continuous
- am/is/are grinding
- Present perfect
- have/has ground
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been grinding
- Past
- ground
- Past continuous
- was/were grinding
- Past perfect
- had ground
- Past perfect continuous
- had been grinding
- Future
- will grind
- Future continuous
- will be grinding
- Future perfect
- will have ground
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been grinding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: grind; grinds; ground; ground; grinding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: grinds.
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