Crossword-Solution: GRIND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grind | v. t. | 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. |
| Grind | v. t. | 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. |
| Grind | v. t. | To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. |
| Grind | v. t. | To study hard for examination. |
| Grind | v. i. | To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. |
| Grind | v. i. | To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. |
| Grind | v. i. | To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. |
| Grind | v. i. | To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. |
| Grind | v. i. | To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. |
| Grind | n. | The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. |
| Grind | n. | Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. |
| Grind | n. | A hard student; a dig. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRIND | anagram | DRING |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with GRIND (5)
Swift of foot was Hiawatha; He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind him! Strong of arm was Hiawatha; He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and swiftness, That the tenth had left the bow-string Ere the first to earth had fallen! He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.
The restless and shadowy figure of a colt wandered up and down a loose-box at the end, whilst the steady grind of all the eaters was occasionally diversified by the rattle of a rope or the stamp of a foot.
One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me, and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist.
Grinding has a connotation of using a lot of CPU time, but it is possible to grind a disk, network, etc.
After Miss Kronborg left him he often lay down in his studio for an hour before dinner, with his head full of musical ideas, with an effervescence in his brain which he had sometimes lost for weeks together under the grind of teaching.
Quotes with GRIND (3)
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect t…
Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned soci…
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; which means that if the rest of us want to get close to God, we seek them out-not because of what we could possible offer them, as if we're the spiritual first responders on the scene to save the day, but because we recognize how much they have to teach us about who God really is." -Quoted by Sarah Arthur, Author of The One Year Daily Grind.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 117 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).