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grindnoun a harsh grating soundthe grind of ice in the blender sent the cat running from the room creak, jar, rasp, scrape, scratch clang, clangor, clank, clash, janglescuffcroak, gargleblast, bleat, bray, screech a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuitsdon't be such a grind—go out with your friends and enjoy yourself bookworm, dink(slang), dork(slang), geek, nerd, swot(British), weenie, wonk double-dome, egghead, highbrow, intellectualbrain, geniusacademic, bookman, scholargearhead, techie goldbrick, goof-off, slacker, underachieverlowbrow very hard or unpleasant workyard work is a real grind donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, toil, travail spadeworkeffort, exertion, pains, struggle, troublechore, duty, job, obligation, responsibilityroutine, tedium, treadmill fun, play decompression, ease, leisure, relaxation, repose, restamusement, dalliance, diversion, entertainment, recreation, sportdormancy, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertnessdallying, goldbricking, loafing, lolling, lounging an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activitythe daily grind of a 50-mile commute was getting old drill, groove, lockstep, pattern, rote, routine, rut, treadmill daily dozen, regimenhousekeepingcustom, fashion, habit, practice(also practise), trick, wontapproach, manner, method, procedure, strategy, style, tack, technique, waydesign, plan, program, schemeconvention, policy, tradition grindverbto make smooth by frictionafter they are ground and polished, these stones can be used for jewelry buff, file, hone, rasp, rub, sand plane, scrapesandblast, scourburnish, dress, gloss, polish, shine, smoothedge, sharpen, strop, whetregrind coarsen, rough (up), roughen, scuff to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping soundeveryone in the car winced when the driver ground the gears trying to shift into second crunch, gnash, grate, grit, scrape, scrunch creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whineclash, collide, jangle, jar to make sharp or sharperbetter grind down that ax before you even think about trying to cut down that tree edge, hone, sharpen, stone, strop, whet file blunt, dull buff, burnish, gloss, polish, round, smooth to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressureused the finest polishing paper he could to grind down the facets of the diamond before dusting it with a soft cloth buff, burnish, dress, furbish, gloss, polish, rub, shine, smooth, smoothen sleek, slickcoat, glaze, japan, lacquer, varnishface, finish, veneerbrightenfile, rasp, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, scrape, scrubbob, bone, lap rough (up), roughen, ruffle, scuff (up) to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surfaceground the rock against the stone wall grate, rasp, scrape, scratch rubgroan, whine glide, skate, slide to reduce to fine particlesgrind whole coffee beans if you want the freshest coffee atomize, beat, bray, comminute, crush, disintegrate, mill, mull, pound, powder, pulverize grate, kibblecrumble, crunchbreak, bust, dash, fracture, fragmentshatter, smash, splintermicronize n.work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion.work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.the grind of the assembly line before the 12th century |