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grinding adjective [ ˈɡrʌɪndɪŋ ]

• (of a difficult situation) oppressive and seemingly without end.
• "grinding poverty"
• (of a sound or movement) harsh and grating.
• "the grinding roar of the lorries"

grinding noun

• the reduction of something to small particles or powder by crushing it.
• "the roasting and grinding of grain, usually barley, for use in brewing"
• the action of rubbing things together gratingly.
• "it's a question that has caused much grinding of teeth among scientists and medics over the last 50 years"

grind verb

• reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it.
• "grind some black pepper over the salad"
Similar: crush, pound, pulverize, mill, powder, granulate, grate, mince, shred, crumble, pestle, mash, smash, press, fragment, kibble, triturate, comminute, levigate, bray,
• rub or cause to rub together gratingly.
• "mountain ranges developed along fault lines where tectonic plates ground against one another"
Similar: rub, grate, scrape, rasp, gnash, grit,
• (of a dancer) gyrate the hips erotically.
• "there were sweaty bodies everywhere bumping and grinding to the music"
Origin: Old English grindan, probably of Germanic origin. Although no cognates are known, it may be distantly related to Latin frendere ‘rub away, gnash’.

a grinding halt

• a situation in which something gradually slows down or loses momentum and then stops altogether.
"the city's dramatic growth came to a grinding halt when the financial industry went into freefall"



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