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grind

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of grind

1 a harsh grating sound
  • the grind of ice in the blender sent the cat running from the room
Synonyms of grind

creak, jar, rasp, scrape, scratch
Words Related to grind

clang, clangor, clank, clash, jangle

scuff

croak, gargle

blast, bleat, bray, screech
2 a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits
  • don't be such a grind—go out with your friends and enjoy yourself
Synonyms of grind

bookworm, dink [slang], dork [slang], geek, nerd, swot [British], weenie, wonk
Words Related to grind

double-dome, egghead, highbrow, intellectual

brain, genius

academic, bookman, scholar

gearhead, techie
Near Antonyms of grind

goldbrick, goof-off, slacker, underachiever

lowbrow
3 very hard or unpleasant work
  • yard work is a real grind
Synonyms of grind

donkeywork, drudge, drudgery, fatigue, labor, moil, slavery, sweat, toil, travail
Words Related to grind

spadework

effort, exertion, pains, struggle, trouble

chore, duty, job, obligation, responsibility

routine, tedium, treadmill
Near Antonyms of grind

decompression, ease, leisure, relaxation, repose, rest

amusement, dalliance, diversion, entertainment, recreation, sport

dormancy, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertness

dallying, goldbricking, loafing, lolling, lounging
Antonyms of grind

fun, play
4 an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity
  • the daily grind of a 50-mile commute was getting old
Synonyms of grind

drill, groove, lockstep, pattern, rote, routine, rut, treadmill
Words Related to grind

daily dozen, regimen

housekeeping

custom, fashion, habit, practice (also practise), trick, wont

approach, manner, method, procedure, strategy, style, tack, technique, way

design, plan, program, scheme

convention, policy, tradition

Synonym Discussion of grind

work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. work may imply activity of body, of mind, of a machine, or of a natural force.
    • too tired to do any work
labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion.
    • farmers demanding fair compensation for their labor
travail is bookish for labor involving pain or suffering.
    • years of travail were lost when the house burned
toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor.
    • his lot would be years of back-breaking toil
drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor.
    • an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery
grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body.
    • the grind of the assembly line

grind

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of grind

1 to make smooth by friction
  • after they are ground and polished, these stones can be used for jewelry
Synonyms of grind

buff, file, hone, rasp, rub, sand
Words Related to grind

plane, scrape

sandblast, scour

burnish, dress, gloss, polish, shine, smooth

edge, hone, sharpen, strop, whet

regrind
Near Antonyms of grind

coarsen, rough (up), roughen, scuff
2 to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound
  • everyone in the car winced when the driver ground the gears trying to shift into second
Synonyms of grind

crunch, gnash, grate, grit, scrape, scrunch
Words Related to grind

creak, groan, moan, rasp, scratch, whine

clash, collide, jangle, jar
3 to make sharp or sharper
  • better grind down that ax before you even think about trying to cut down that tree
Synonyms of grind

edge, hone, sharpen, stone, strop, whet
Words Related to grind

file
Near Antonyms of grind

buff, burnish, gloss, polish, round, smooth
Antonyms of grind

blunt, dull
4 to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure
  • used the finest polishing paper he could to grind down the facets of the diamond before dusting it with a soft cloth
Synonyms of grind

buff, burnish, dress, furbish, gloss, polish, rub, shine, smooth, smoothen
Words Related to grind

sleek, slick

coat, glaze, japan, lacquer, varnish

face, finish, veneer

brighten

file, rasp, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, scrape, scrub

bob, bone, lap
Near Antonyms of grind

rough (up), roughen, ruffle, scuff (up)
5 to pass roughly and noisily over or against a surface
  • ground the rock against the stone wall
Synonyms of grind

grate, rasp, scrape, scratch
Words Related to grind

rub

groan, whine
Near Antonyms of grind

glide, skate, slide
6 to reduce to fine particles
  • grind whole coffee beans if you want the freshest coffee
Synonyms of grind

atomize, beat, bray, comminute, crush, disintegrate, mill, mull, pound, powder, pulverize
Words Related to grind

grate, kibble

crumble, crunch

break, bust, dash, fracture, fragment

shatter, smash, splinter

micronize

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