0 to make something into small pieces or a powder by pressing between hard surfaces:
1 to rub something against a hard surface, in order to make it sharper or smoother:
2 the size of grains in a substance that has been ground, especially coffee:
3 a difficult or boring activity that needs a lot of effort:
4 to crush a substance between hard, moving surfaces into small pieces or a powder:
5 to rub an object against a hard surface in order to make it sharper, thinner, or smoother:
6 difficult or unpleasant activity that is tiring or repeated too often:
7 a difficult or boring activity that needs a lot of effort:
8 employment, especially when this consists of boring activities:
Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather.
The perforated disks were created by reworking a potsherd into a circular form by chipping, drilling, and then grinding the edges to a smooth finish.
Samples from the normal smooth surface of the gneiss boulder show that the surface has been ground and polished during glacial transportation.
The soil was gently ground, passed through a 2-mm sieve and completely mixed prior to being placed in pots.
A p-rule is ground exactly when every atom in it is ground.
Time to stop the little saltmill grinding, before everything else has become bitter.
In cases of the latter sort, the values that ground our attitudes are not truly our own.
The tissue was dried by grinding with anhydrous sodium sulfate and extracted with several volumes of hexane to remove carotenoids, retinols, and retinyl esters.
Where the standards were unclear, gover nment officials faced the dilemma of how to ground the political justification for authoritative direction of private voluntary relationships.
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