[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grind \grind\, v. t. imp.  p. p. ground; p. pr.  vb. n.
   grinding. as. grindan; perh. akin to l. frendere to
   gnash, grind. cf. grist.
   1. to reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the
      teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the
      action of millstones.
      1913 webster

            take the millstones, and grind meal.  --is. xivii.
                                                  2.
      1913 webster

   2. to wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make
      smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill;
      to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
      1913 webster

   3. to oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
      1913 webster

            to grind the subject or defraud the prince.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. to study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away;
      as, to grind away at one's studies. college slang
      1913 webster
see also:
ground grinding grist 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

grinding \grind"ing\, a.  n.
   from grind.
   1913 webster

   grinding frame, an english name for a cotton spinning
      machine.

   grinding mill.
   a a mill for grinding grain.
   b a lapidary's lathe.
       1913 webster
see also:
grinding frame grinding mill 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

grinding
     n 1: matter resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable
          grindings clogged the drain"
     2: a harsh and strident sound as of the grinding of gears
     3: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water
        or wind or ice syn: abrasion, attrition, detrition
see also:
abrasion attrition detrition 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

151 moby thesaurus words for "grinding":
   ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, absolute,
   absolutist, absolutistic, application, arbitrary, aristocratic,
   arrogant, atomization, attrition, attritive, authoritarian,
   authoritative, autocratic, beating, boning, bossy, brainwork,
   brecciation, buffing, burdensome, burnishing, chafe, chafing,
   comminution, conning, contemplation, cram, cramming, crumbling,
   crushing, despotic, detrition, dictatorial, disintegration,
   domineering, dressing, drill, drudging, engrossment, erasure,
   erosion, erosive, exercise, exhausting, extensive study, feudal,
   filing, fragmentation, fretting, galling, gnawing, granulation,
   granulization, grating, grazing, grind, grubbing, hardworking,
   harsh, headwork, heavy, high-handed, imperative, imperial,
   imperious, inspection, irritant, irritating, irritative, jangling,
   jangly, jarring, laboring, levigation, limation, lordly,
   lucubration, magisterial, magistral, mashing, masterful,
   mental labor, monocratic, onerous, oppressive, overbearing,
   overburdensome, overruling, pegging, peremptory, perusal, plodding,
   plugging, polishing, pounding, powdering, practice, rasping, raspy,
   reading, repressive, restudy, restudying, review, rubbing away,
   sandblasting, sanding, scouring, scrape, scraping, scrapy, scratch,
   scratching, scratchy, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, severe, shining,
   shredding, slaving, slogging, smashing, smoothing, stinging,
   straining, strict, striving, struggling, study, studying, subject,
   suppressive, sweating, swotting, toiling, trituration, tyrannical,
   tyrannous, wear, wearing, wearing away, wearying, weighty,
   wide reading, working

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