Usually means: Repeatedly performing tasks for progress.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. grinding: Merriam-Webster
  2. grinding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grinding: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grinding: Vocabulary.com
  5. Grinding, grinding: Wordnik
  6. grinding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. grinding: Wiktionary
  8. Grinding, grinding: Dictionary.com
  9. grinding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Grinding (abrasive cutting), Grinding (dance), Grinding (gaming), Grinding (video games), Grinding (video gaming), Grinding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Grinding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. grinding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. grinding: Rhymezone
  14. Grinding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. grinding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. grinding: FreeDictionary.org
  17. grinding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. grinding: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. grinding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grinding: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. grinding: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grinding: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. grinding: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grinding: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grinding: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Grinding: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grinding: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. grinding: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Grinding: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  3. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of grinding together or crushing into small particles; the sound of this action.
noun:  (manufacturing, repair) The action of grinding a workpiece to change its size, shape, and surface finish.
noun:  (dance) A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together.
noun:  (roleplaying games, gaming) Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points or wealth.
noun:  (business, informal) The act of doing the daily grind.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the act or sound of grinding.
adjective:  Relentlessly taxing; burdensome; exacting to the point of exhaustion.
adjective:  (obsolete) Crushing; oppressive; overwhelming.

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