1.  grind(n = noun.person) dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious; Array
is a kind of assimilator, learner, scholar
Derived form verb grind₃

2.  grind(n = noun.attribute) Array - the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"
is a kind of degree, grade, level

3.  grind(n = noun.act) donkeywork, drudgery, plodding - hard monotonous routine work; Array
is a kind of labor, labour, toil
Derived form verb grind₃

4.  grind(n = noun.act) mill, pulverisation, pulverization - the act of grinding to a powder or dust; Array
is a kind of compaction, crunch, crush
Derived forms verb grind₅, verb grind₂, verb grind₁

1.  grind(v = verb.contact) cranch, craunch, crunch - press or grind with a crushing noise; Array
is one way to press
Derived form noun grind₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  grind(v = verb.contact) grate - make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
Derived forms noun grind₄, noun grinding₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  grind(v = verb.social) dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail - work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
is one way to do work, work
Derived forms noun grind₃, noun grind₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

4.  grind(v = verb.motion) Array - 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; Array
is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Sample sentences: They grind

5.  grind(v = verb.change) bray, comminute, crunch, mash - reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
is one way to break up, fragment, fragmentise, fragmentize
Derived forms noun grind₄, noun grinder₃, noun grinder₂, noun grinding₁, noun grinding₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

6.  grind(v = verb.creation) Array - created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"
is one way to create, make
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

7.  grind(v = verb.creation) Array - shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
is one way to forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. [1913 Webster]
"Take the millstones, and grind meal." [1913 Webster]

2.  To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.  To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. [1913 Webster]
"To grind the subject or defraud the prince." [1913 Webster]

4.  To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. [1913 Webster]

1.  To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. [1913 Webster]
"Send thee
Into the common prison, there to grind." [1913 Webster]

2.  To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. [1913 Webster]

3.  To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. [1913 Webster]

4.  To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. [1913 Webster]

5.  To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. [1913 Webster]

1.  The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. [1913 Webster]

2.  Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]

3.  A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [1913 Webster]

grind, v. & n.
--v. (past and past part. ground)
1 a tr. reduce to small particles or powder by crushing esp. by passing through a mill. b intr. (of a mill, machine, etc.) move with a crushing action.
2 a tr. reduce, sharpen, or smooth by friction. b tr. & intr. rub or rub together gratingly (grind one's teeth).
3 tr. (often foll. by down) oppress; harass with exactions (grinding poverty).
4 intr. a (often foll. by away) work or study hard. b (foll. by out) produce with effort (grinding out verses). c (foll. by on) (of a sound) continue gratingly or monotonously.
5 tr. turn the handle of e.g. a coffee-mill, barrel-organ, etc.
6 intr. sl. (of a dancer) rotate the hips.
7 intr. coarse sl. have sexual intercourse.
--n.
1 the act or an instance of grinding.
2 colloq. hard dull work; a laborious task (the daily grind).
3 the size of ground particles.
4 sl. a dancer's rotary movement of the hips.
5 coarse sl. an act of sexual intercourse.

Idiom:
grind to a halt stop laboriously. ground glass
1 glass made non-transparent by grinding etc.
2 glass ground to a powder.

Derivative:
grindingly adv.

Etymology:
OE grindan, of unkn. orig.

VB  become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

VB  be malevolent, bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge, bear malice, betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot, hurt, annoy, injure, harm, wrong, do harm to, do an ill office to, outrage, disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast, molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease, throw stones at, play the devil with, hunt down, dragoon, hound, persecute, oppress, grind, maltreat, illtreat, ill-use, wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel, dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood, have no mercy.

VB  be sharp, taper to a point, bristle with, render sharp, sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind, chip (flint), cut.

VB  come to dust, be disintegrated, be reduced to powder reduce to powder, grind to powder, pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate, scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise, contuse, contund, beat, crush, cranch, craunch, crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate, attenuate.

VB  rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry, scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw, file, grind, set one's teeth on edge, rosin.

VB  learn, acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning, acquaint oneself with, master, make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with, grind, cram, get up, coach up, learn by heart, learn by rote, read, spell, peruse, con over, pore over, thumb over, wade through, dip into, run the eye over, run the eye through, turn over the leaves, study, be studious, burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book, cram, go to school, go to college, go to the university, matriculate, serve an apprenticeship, serve one's apprenticeship, serve one's time, learn one's trade, be informed, be taught, drop out, leave school, quit school, graduate, transfer, take a leave, dismiss, expel, kick out of school, flunk out, be dismissed.

grind away, grind down, grind organ, grind out, grind to a halt