Synonyms of the word

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

assimilator

• n. A person or thing which assimilates.
• n. In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts.

bray

• v. (intransitive) Of a donkey, to make its cry.
• v. (intransitive) Of a camel, to make its cry.
• v. (intransitive) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
• v. (transitive) To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
• n. The cry of an ass or donkey.
• n. The cry of a camel.
• n. Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
• v. (now rare) To crush or pound, especially in a mortar.
• v. (Britain, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.

comminute

• v. To pulverize; to smash.
• v. (medicine) To cause fragmentation (of bone).
• v. To break into smaller portions.
• n. Pulverized material.

compaction

• n. The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

cranch

• v. Alternative form of craunch.

craunch

• v. (transitive, archaic) To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
• n. A grinding or crunching sound.

create

• v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
• v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
• v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
• v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
• v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
• adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.

crunch

• v. To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
• v. (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations).
• v. To grind or press with violence and noise.
• v. To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
• v. (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by…
• n. A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
• n. A critical moment or event.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains…

crush

• n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
• n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
• n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
• n. A violent crowding.
• n. A crowd control barrier.
• n. An infatuation or affection for.
• n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
• n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
• n. A party, festive function.
• n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
• v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
• v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
• v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
• v. To oppress or burden grievously.
• v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
• v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
• v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

drudgery

• n. Tedious, menial and exhausting work.

dweeb

• n. (US, originally college slang, now general slang, pejorative) A boring, studious, or socially inept person.

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

forge

• n. Furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
• n. Workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
• n. The act of beating or working iron or steel.
• v. (metallurgy) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
• v. To form or create with concerted effort.
• v. To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
• v. To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
• v. (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually…
• v. (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

fragment

• n. A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not.
• n. (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
• n. (computing) An incomplete portion of code.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be broken into pieces.
• v. (transitive, computing) To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.

fragmentise

• v. Alternative form of fragmentize.

fragmentize

• v. (transitive) To break, cut, or otherwise separate (something) into fragments.
• v. (intransitive) To fall into or become separated into fragments.

grate

• n. A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
• n. A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To shred things, usually foodstuffs, by rubbing across a grater.
• v. (intransitive) To rub against, making a (usually unpleasant) squeaking sound.
• v. (by extension, intransitive) To grate on one’s nerves; to irritate or annoy.
• v. (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound.
• v. (by extension, transitive, obsolete) To annoy.
• adj. (obsolete) Serving to gratify; agreeable.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

learner

• n. One who is learning.

make

• v. (transitive, heading) To create.
• v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
• v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
• v. To constitute.
• v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
• v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
• v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
• v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
• v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
• v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
• v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
• v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
• v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
• v. To appoint; to name.
• v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
• v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
• v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
• v. To enact; to establish.
• v. To develop into; to prove to be.
• v. To form or formulate in the mind.
• v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
• v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
• v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
• v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
• n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
• n. How a thing is made; construction.
• n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
• n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
• n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
• n. A person's character or disposition.
• n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
• n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
• n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
• n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
• n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
• n. (slang, military) A promotion.
• n. A home-made project.
• n. (basketball) A made basket.
• n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
• n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

mill

• n. A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
• n. The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
• n. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure…
• n. A machine for grinding and polishing.
• n. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
• n. A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
• n. A building housing such a plant.
• n. (figuratively) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce…
• n. (figuratively) An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised.
• n. (informal) An engine.
• n. (informal) A boxing match, fistfight.
• n. (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of…
• n. (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
• n. (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
• n. A milling cutter.
• n. A treadmill.
• n. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) (trading card…
• n. An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
• n. One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
• v. (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
• v. (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
• v. (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such…
• v. (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
• v. (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
• v. (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
• v. (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
• v. (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
• v. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
• v. (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
• v. (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
• v. (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
• v. (trading card games) To place cards into the discard pile directly from the draw pile.
• n. A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.

moil

• v. To toil, to work hard.
• v. To churn continually.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
• n. Hard work.
• n. Confusion, turmoil.
• n. A spot; a defilement.
• n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
• n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
• n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

mold

• n. A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
• n. A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
• n. Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
• n. The shape or pattern of a mold.
• n. General shape or form.
• n. Distinctive character or type.
• n. A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
• n. (architecture) A group of moldings.
• n. (anatomy) A fontanelle.
• v. (transitive) To shape in or on a mold.
• v. (transitive) To form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
• v. (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence.
• v. (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
• v. (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
• v. (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
• v. (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
• n. A natural substance in the form of a woolly or furry growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material…
• v. (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
• v. (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
• n. Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
• v. To cover with mold or soil.

mould

• n. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.
• v. (Britain, Canada, Australia) Alternative spelling of mold.

nerd

• n. (slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is intellectual but generally introverted.
• n. (informal, sometimes derogatory) One who has an intense, obsessive interest in something.
• n. (slang, always derogatory) An unattractive, socially awkward, annoying, undesirable, and/or boring, person;…
• n. (post 1980s) A member of a subculture revolving around a mixture of video games, fantasy fiction, science…

plodding

• v. present participle of plod.
• adj. Progressing slowly and laboriously.
• n. Slow, laborious progress.

press

• n. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
• n. (countable) A printing machine.
• n. (uncountable) A collective term for the print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
• n. (countable) A publisher.
• n. (countable, especially in Ireland and Scotland) An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
• n. (countable, weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the…
• n. (countable, wagering) An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager…
• n. (countable) Pure, unfermented grape juice.
• n. A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
• n. (obsolete) A crowd.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight.
• v. (transitive) to compress, squeeze.
• v. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug.
• v. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
• v. (transitive, sewing) To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding,…
• v. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble.
• v. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel.
• v. To try to force (something upon someone); to urge or inculcate.
• v. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward.
• v. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat.
• v. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) to throng, crowd.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) to print.
• v. To force into service, particularly into naval service.

pulverisation

• n. Alternative spelling of pulverization.

pulverization

• n. The act of pulverizing.

scholar

• n. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
• n. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
• n. A learned person; a bookman.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

swot

• v. (intransitive, slang, Britain) To study with effort or determination.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain, with up) To study something with effort or determination (swot up on).
• n. (slang, Britain) One who swots.
• n. (slang, Britain) Work.
• n. (slang, Britain) Vigorous study at an educational institution.

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

wonk

• n. (derogatory, informal) An overly studious person, particularly student; a nerd.
• n. (by extension, informal) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.