grinding

Speech parts

1. grinding - Noun

2. grinding - Adjective

3. grinding - Verb

Meaning

of Grind

from Grind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

difficult hard severe trying crushing attrition grating milling abrasive arduous scraping laborious abrasion burdensome onerous
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Antonyms

seizing barring withholding abandoning separating refraining
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Hypernyms

mote atom speck noise particle molecule

Phrases with the word

grinding machine grinding mill grinding organ machine for grinding coffee beans grinding down grinding disc

Examples

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. Ken Kesey

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Anthony Burgess

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness! James Freeman Clarke

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. English Proverb

The smith's dog sleeps at the noise of the hammer, and wakes at the grinding of teeth. Spanish Proverb

A gravestone cannot be used for grinding. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

grindhouse grindhouse film grindie grinding away grinding disc grinding down