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grind


grind - noun

  • an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
  • the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
  • hard monotonous routine work
  • the act of grinding to a powder or dust

    • grind - verb

    • press or grind with a crushing noise
    • make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
    • work hard
    • 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
    • reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
    • created by grinding
    • shape or form by grinding

    grind - thesaurus

    bray   comminute   cranch   craunch   crunch   dig   donkeywork   drudge   drudgery   dweeb   grate   labor American English spelling   labour British English spelling   mash   mill   moil   nerd   plodding   pulverisation British English spelling   pulverization American English spelling   swot   toil   travail   wonk  


    View spelling list ind words and learn about the word grind in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 7. Long vowels e.g ee, ea or y? oa, o-e, or ow? u-e, ue, or ew?.

    Scrabble score for grind

    g is 2 r is 1 i is 1 n is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 7

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