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Meanings of grind in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mill"
Examples for "mill"
1
She fixes problems: not run-of-the-mill ones, but problems on a colossal scale.
2
Well; so God was everywhere forgotten-inthe fields and in the mill.
3
The end would have come quickly without the mill, without the power.
4
The change in him was even greater than in the mill itself.
5
In the background the road through the ravine with mill-stream and footbridge.
1
Consequently the pulverization of rocks goes on most rapidly in dry-farm districts.
2
The starch obtained from the root of an American plant by pulverization.
3
Specific risk for pre- and near-postpubescent adolescents: skeletal growth spurts may cause irreparable bone pulverization.
4
They should be dried under cover and hermetically closed up in sacks or other vessels to prevent untimely pulverization.
5
Clays by fire are deprived of their coherent quality, which cannot be restored to them by pulverization, nor by humectation.
1
As little actual dust as possible should be made during pulverisation.
2
Heinzman rubbed his thumb and forefinger together and wafted the imaginary pulverisation away.
3
In the rainbow and parrot fish they are highly specialised, otherwise the pulverisation of the hard shell of molluscs would be impossible.
4
Already desperately short of resources and struggling with poor infrastructure, Haiti now has to cope with its pulverisation from one of the world's worst earthquakes.
Usage of grind in English
1
They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
2
The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
3
The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
4
Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
5
The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
6
They use a stone grinder from India that's used to grind dahl.
7
Five officers had been assigned to grind their way through these reports.
8
Most days I had to grind a second bucket in the afternoon.
9
Without that, they could get a gradual grind-down in confidence, he said.
10
Pimple's idea was to grind more and faster, or so he said.
11
Awful grind up the valley in the sun with an empty stomach.
12
They continue to put forth the effort and grind out these wins.
13
That is why I dread so much interruptions in the daily grind.
14
Now players have to be prepared to grind, day in, day out.
15
Of course, there was nothing to do but grind up more bugs.
16
The hard grind of looking for a job will start up again.
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Grind through the time
Grind across language varieties
Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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