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grind
Synonyms and Antonyms of grind
1
a harsh grating sound
2
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
3
very hard or unpleasant work
4
an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
Synonym Discussion of grind
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- too tired to do any work
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- farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor
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- years of travail were lost when the house burned
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- his lot would be years of back-breaking toil
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- an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery
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- the grind of the assembly line
grind
Synonyms and Antonyms of grind
1
to make smooth by friction
2
to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
3
to make sharp or sharper
4
to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure
5
to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface
6
to reduce to fine particles
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