1. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
   "grind the spices in a mortar";
   - mash, crunch, bray [archaic], comminute [rare]
    
2. Create by grinding
   "grind designs into the glass bowl"
    
3. Shape or form by grinding
   "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
    
4. Press or grind with a crushing noise
   "He ground the ice cubes between his teeth";
   - crunch, cranch [archaic], craunch [archaic], scrunch
    
5. Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
   "grind one's teeth in anger";
   - grate
    
6. [informal] Work hard
   "Lexicographers grind all day long";
   - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag [informal], travail [literary], drudge, dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer]
    
7. [informal] 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
   "The couple was grinding on the dance floor"

1. The act of grinding to a powder or dust
   "The grind of the ore was the first step in the extraction process";
   - pulverization, pulverisation [Brit], comminution
    
2. The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
   "a coarse grind of coffee"
    
3. Hard monotonous routine work
   "he spent his life in tiresome grind";
   - drudgery, plodding, donkeywork [informal]
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
   "The popular kids often mocked the grind for always having his nose in a book";
   - swot [Brit, informal], nerd [informal], wonk [informal], dweeb [N. Amer, informal], nurd [informal, rare]
    
5. [Brit, vulgar, archaic] Slang for sexual intercourse
   - rumpy-pumpy [informal]

Derived forms: grinds, grinding, ground

See also: tyrannize

Type of: assimilator, break up, carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, compaction, copulation, create, dance, degree, forge, form, fragment, fragmentise [Brit], fragmentize, grade, intercourse, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], learner, level, make, mold [N. Amer], mould [Brit, Cdn], press, relation, scholar, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, shape, student, toil, trip the light fantastic [archaic], trip the light fantastic toe [archaic], work

Encyclopedia: Grind