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grind

  [grahynd] verb, ground or (Rare) grind⋅ed; grind⋅ing; noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
2. to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding or crushing; bray, triturate, or pulverize.
3. to oppress, torment, or crush: to grind the poor.
4. to rub harshly or gratingly; grate together; grit: to grind one's teeth.
5. to operate by turning a crank: to grind a hand organ.
6. to produce by crushing or abrasion: to grind flour.
7. Slang. to annoy; irritate; irk: It really grinds me when he's late.
–verb (used without object)
8. to perform the operation of reducing to fine particles.
9. to rub harshly; grate.
10. to be or become ground.
11. to be polished or sharpened by friction.
12. Informal. to work or study laboriously (often fol. by away): He was grinding away at his algebra.
13. Slang. (in a dance) to rotate the hips in a suggestive manner. Compare bump (def. 11).
–noun
14. the act of grinding.
15. a grinding sound.
16. a grade of particle fineness into which a substance is ground: The coffee is available in various grinds for different coffee makers.
17. laborious, usually uninteresting work: Copying all the footnotes was a grind.
18. Informal. an excessively diligent student.
19. Slang. a dance movement in which the hips are rotated in a suggestive or erotic manner. Compare bump (def. 20).
—Verb phrase
20. grind out,
a. to produce in a routine or mechanical way: to grind out magazine stories.
b. to extinguish by rubbing the lighted end against a hard surface: to grind out a cigarette.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME grinden, OE grindan; akin to Goth grinda-, L frendere

Related forms:
grind⋅a⋅ble, adjective
grind⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
grind⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
2. crush, powder, comminute, pound. 3. persecute, plague, afflict, trouble. 4. abrade.
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grind

  1. in.
    to sell drugs. : He told the cops he wasn't grinding, but they found his junk.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

grind 
O.E. grindan, forgrindan "destroy by crushing" (class III strong verb; past tense grand, pp. grunden), from P.Gmc. *grindanan (cf. Du. grenden), related to ground, from PIE *ghrendh- "crushing" (cf. L. frendere "to gnash the teeth," Gk. khondros "corn, grain," Lith. grendu "to scrape, scratch"). The noun sense "steady, hard work" first recorded 1851 in college student slang; the meaning "hard-working student" is Amer.Eng. slang from 1864. Grinder as a type of large sandwich is first recorded 1954. To keep one's nose to the grindstone was originally to get control of another and treat him harshly:
"This Text holdeth their noses so hard to the grindstone, that it clean disfigureth their Faces." [Frith, "Mirror to know Thyself," 1532]
The main modern (reflective) sense of "work hard" is from 1828.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: grind
Pronunciation: 'grInd
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: ground /'graund/; grind·ing
1 : to reduce to powder or small fragments by friction (as with the teeth)
2 : to press together and move with a rotating or back-and-forth motion —see BRUXISM
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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