grind

Noun

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

• hard monotonous routine work

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
  • a coarse grind of coffee
    

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

Verb

• shape or form by grinding
  • grind lenses for glasses and cameras
    

• created by grinding
  • grind designs into the glass bowl
    

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
  • grind the spices in a mortar
    
  • mash the garlic
    

• 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

• work hard
  • She was digging away at her math homework
    
  • Lexicographers drudge all day long
    

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
  • grate one's teeth in anger
    

• press or grind with a crushing noise

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mill , pulverization , pulverisation , drudgery , plodding , donkeywork , swot , nerd , wonk , dweeb , mash , crunch , bray , comminute , labor , labour , toil , fag , travail , drudge , dig , moil , grate , cranch , craunch