Grind
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.
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.
To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
To study hard for examination.
To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study.
A hard student; a dig.
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Grind Quotations
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel Washington
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Wentworth Miller
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi
As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith
Grind Translations
grind in Danish is male
grind in Dutch is knarsen, piepen
grind in Finnish is jauhaa
grind in French is crisser, moudre
grind in German is schleifen, schleifen, mahle, reiben
grind in Italian is crocchiare, trascinare, tritare
grind in Latin is frendo, frendo
grind in Norwegian is slipe, maling, male
grind in Spanish is moler, aguzar, aciberar
grind in Swedish is slipa, mala
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