grind down

Verb

Meaning

rule a country as a tyrant

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It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant. Emil Cioran

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. Austan Goolsbee

Are we to believe a 13-acre limestone bench was planed with that degree of precision using rounded hammerstones to grind down the rock until it was almost perfectly flat? Source: Internet

If the contractor does not meet the smoothness specs, Roth said the contractor will either incur a penalty or they will be required to grind down the concrete. Source: Internet

Toronto used some stiff defence to set up its attack and to grind down the visitors. Source: Internet

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