Crossword-Solution: GRINDING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Grinding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Grind |
| Grinding | a. & n. | from Grind. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| GRINDING | anagram | RINGDING |
We have 33 clues for the answer “GRINDING”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| 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 |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "GRINDING"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +1
New Suggestion for "GRINDING"
Related word tools
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.
The shoemaking and mending, the blacksmithing, cartwrighting, coopering, weaving, and grain-grinding, were all performed by the slaves on the home plantation.
PERPLEXITY—GRINDING THE SHEARS—A QUARREL “He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire,” Bathsheba said, musingly.
Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1987–1997).