grind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: grinds
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form: grinded
form: strong
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Etymology: From Middle English grynden, from Old English grindan, from Proto-West Germanic *grindan, from Proto-Germanic *grindaną.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gríende, griene (“to grind, mill”), Dutch grinden (“to grind”, rare) and grind (“gravel, shingle”), Albanian grind (“to brawl, fight”).
Senses: glosses: To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
examples: text: grind a lens; grind an axe
glosses: To shape with the force of friction.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
examples: text: This corn grinds well.
text: Steel grinds to a sharp edge.
glosses: To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
glosses: To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
glosses: To oppress, hold down or weaken.
examples: text: She said, "How'd you like to waste some time?" / And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind
ref: 1984, Prince, “Darling Nikki”, in Purple Rain, performed by Prince and the Revolution:
glosses: To rotate the hips erotically.
glosses: To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
examples: text: She wanted to grind herself against him, wanted to moan, loud and free, wanted to take his hand and make him touch her more firmly.
ref: 2013 February 26, Elizabeth Hoyt, Lord of Darkness: Number 5 in series, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: He ground against her until he was muttering curses, his kiss rougher than before.
ref: 2016 August 16, Heather McGovern, A Moment of Bliss, Lyrical Press, →ISBN:
text: She kept grinding until they were both spent: their bliss washing over them entirely.
ref: 2017 December 17, Becca Fanning, Shifter Royal Dynasty Vol 1 (Royal BBW Bear Shifter Secret Baby Romance Series), Gizmo Media:
text: This morning, we woke up and made out for a solid forty-five minutes, grinding like teenagers until she came against my thigh.
ref: 2020 April 7, Laurelin Paige, Claire Contreras, Sierra Simone, Skye Warren, Annika Martin, Need You Now, Top Shelf Romance LLC:
glosses: To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
examples: text: These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them to grind for resources.
text: The first level of the game is the best place to grind extra lives.
text: For a while I used to grind demons and try to get the count higher.
text: Similarly, nearly all massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), such as Dungeons & Dragons Online, feature grind: Players repeat tasks, or often “quests”, to gain in-game currency to spend on weapons or other ancillary items.
ref: 2013, Will Luton, Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders, →ISBN, page 38:
text: To extend the variety past that, you'll need to unlock new units in each class, meaning you have to grind through the rather lengthy process of using every one of your class’ weapons and skills significantly across several matches.
ref: 2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:
topics: video-games
glosses: To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
examples: text: to grind an organ
glosses: To operate by turning a crank.
glosses: To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically format and indent code.
examples: text: Eh, brah, let's go grind.
glosses: To eat.
examples: text: Grinding lessons into students' heads does not motivate them to learn.
glosses: To instill through repetitive teaching.
examples: text: to grind LeetCode
text: One evening, during evening work, Charlie was trying hard to do the verses which had been set to his form. […] Wilton, whose conduct had been more impertinent than that of any one else, said to Charlie—
“I say, young Evson, how you are grinding.”
“I have these verses to do,” said Charlie simply.
ref: 1862, Frederic W. Farrar, St. Winifred's: or the World of School:
glosses: To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
examples: text: I need to pontificate on something that really grinds me. So here goes. I am sick and tired of lazy thinkers using the defense of “legislated morality.”
ref: 2003, Steven Wunderink, Minding Your Spiritual Business: Life Stories with Life Sense, page 139:
glosses: To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
Derived terms: axe to grind
ax to grind
backgrind
bump and grind
cryogrind
deathgrind
goregrind
grindability
grindable
grind down
grindery
grindhouse
grind out
grindset
grindster
grindstone
grind the corn
grind to a halt
grind up
grindy
have an axe to grind
intergrind
misgrind
nosegrind
overgrind
porngrind
pornogrind
pregrind
regrind
the mill cannot grind with water that is past
the mills of the gods grind slowly
togrind