Crossword-Solution: GRINDING 8 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Grinding p. pr. & vb. n. of Grind
Grinding a. & n. from Grind.

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GRINDING anagram RINGDING

We have 33 clues for the answer “GRINDING”

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unmaking 1 answer
Molar's mode 1 answer
Very burdensome 1 answer
mangling 1 answer
Obliterating. 2 answers
Milling 3 answers
Molar 4 answers
polishing 4 answers
Disintegrating. 4 answers
destroying 5 answers
KNIFE-making process (steel) 6 answers
Breaking down? 8 answers
consuming 9 answers
attrition 10 answers
Wearing away. 14 answers
"Breaking ___" 22 answers
chafing 22 answers
Abrasion 27 answers
Rasping 35 answers
rubbing 37 answers
Piercing 42 answers
Jarring 43 answers
shrill 44 answers
Strident 47 answers
Grating 49 answers
crushing 51 answers
Abrasive 51 answers
Wearing 63 answers
Annoying 65 answers
Wheel 72 answers
striking 77 answers
Penetrating 78 answers
Hard 107 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRINDING (5)

When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.” In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
PERPLEXITY—GRINDING THE SHEARS—A QUARREL “He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire,” Bathsheba said, musingly.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1992

Quotes with GRINDING (3)

Being in a relationship with some people is like pushing a boat through sand. I used to have the time and energy for that kind of nonsense, but not anymore. Relationships should be a wonderful journey of exploration and love; not grinding resistance.
Steve Maraboli
Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark
Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. As awarness calls for types of heroic dedication that his culture no longer provides for him, society contrives to help him forget. In the mysterious way in which life is given to us in evolution on this planet, it pushes in the direction of its own expansion. We don’t understand it simply because we don’t know the purpose of creation; we only feel life strain…
Ernest Becker The Denial of Death
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–1997).