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1. Press or grind with a crushing noise
   - crunch, cranch, craunch
    
2. Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
   - grate
    
3. Work hard
   - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil [N. Amer]
    
4. Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
    
5. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
   "grind the spices in a mortar"
   - mash, crunch, bray [archaic], comminute
    
6. Create by grinding
   "grind designs into the glass bowl"
    
7. Shape or form by grinding
   "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

1. An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
   - swot [Brit], nerd, wonk [N. Amer], dweeb
    
2. The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
   "a coarse grind of coffee"
    
3. Hard monotonous routine work
   - drudgery, plodding, donkeywork
    
4. The act of grinding to a powder or dust
   - mill, pulverization, pulverisation [Brit]

Derived forms: grinding, ground, grinds

See also: grind down, grinder, grinding

Type of: assimilator, break up, compaction, create, crunch, crush, dance, degree, do work, forge, form, fragment, fragmentise [Brit], fragmentize, grade, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], learner, level, make, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], press, scholar, shape, toil, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, work

Encyclopedia: Grind