Usually means: Repeatedly performing tasks for progress.
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General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. grind: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grind: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grind: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grind, Grind, grind: Wordnik
  7. grind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grind: Wiktionary
  9. grind: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grind: Dictionary.com
  12. grind: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. grind: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. G.R.I.N.D (Get Ready It's a New Day), Grind (board game), Grind (disambiguation), Grind (film), Grind (gaming), Grind (musical), Grind (skateboarding), Grind (song), Grind (soundtrack), Grind (sport), Grind, The Grind (TV series), The Grind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Grind: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. grind: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. grind: Rhymezone
  18. grind: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. grind: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Grind: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. grind: Free Dictionary
  22. grind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grind: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. grind: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. grind: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Grind: Dictionary.com
  27. grind: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grind: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grind (disambiguation), grind: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. grind: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. GRIND, grind: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. grind: Hacking Lexicon
  4. GRIND, Grind (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Grind (disambiguation), grind: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. grind: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Grind: Easton Bible
  2. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. grind, grind: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grind: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Grind: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. the grind: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grind: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
verb:  (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
verb:  (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
verb:  (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
verb:  To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
verb:  (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
verb:  (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
verb:  (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
verb:  (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
verb:  (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
verb:  To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
verb:  (computing, dated) To automatically format and indent code.
verb:  (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
verb:  To instill through repetitive teaching.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
noun:  The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
noun:  Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
noun:  A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
noun:  A tedious and laborious task.
noun:  A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
noun:  (archaic, slang) One who studies hard.
noun:  (slang) Hustle; hard work.
noun:  A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
noun:  (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”). [A genre of death metal music or hardcore punk, incorporating aggressive guitar riffs, extremely rapid drumming and loud, undecipherable screaming.]

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