grind

grind is a 5-letter English word with 23 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
4. transitive verb. To study hard for examination.
5. intransitive verb. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
6. intransitive verb. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
7. intransitive verb. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
8. intransitive verb. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
9. intransitive verb. To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
10. noun. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
11. noun. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
12. noun. A hard student; a dig.
13. noun. the act of grinding to a powder or dust

    Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization

14. noun. hard monotonous routine work

    Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding

15. noun. the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

    "a coarse grind of coffee"

16. noun. an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

    Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk

17. verb. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

    "grind the spices in a mortar"

    "mash the garlic"

    Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash

18. verb. make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

    "grate one's teeth in anger"

    Synonyms: grate

19. verb. press or grind with a crushing noise

    Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch

20. verb. shape or form by grinding

    "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

21. verb. created by grinding

    "grind designs into the glass bowl"

22. verb. 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
23. verb. work hard

    "She was digging away at her math homework"

    "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

    Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

Synonyms

mill, pulverisation, pulverization, donkeywork, drudgery, plodding, dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk, bray, comminute, crunch, mash, grate, cranch, craunch, dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil

Common word forms

grinds, grindal, grinded, grinder, grinding, grindable

Words from these letters

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