Antonyms for grindinggrind·ing

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1. grindingnoun

   material resulting from the process of grinding

   "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"

   Synonyms:
   attrition, abrasion, detrition

2. grindingnoun

   a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)

   Synonyms:
   attrition, abrasion, detrition

3. grinding, abrasion, attrition, detritionnoun

   the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice

   Synonyms:
   excoriation, corrasion, contriteness, rubbing, detrition, contrition, scratch, attrition, friction, abrasion, scrape

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1. grindingadjective

   Synonyms:
   abradant

2. grindingnoun

   Synonyms:
   pulverization, trituration, crushing, levigation

How to use grinding in a sentence?

1. Steve Warren:

   This was a methodical and often times grinding movement from the south to the north, it took the friendly forces several weeks to be able to break through.

2. J. C. Watts:

   For the past 30 years our nation’s spent $5 trillion trying to erase poverty, and the result, as you know, is that we didn’t get rid of it at all. In fact, we spread it. We destroyed the self-esteem of millions of people, grinding them down in a welfare system that penalizes moms for wanting to marry the father of their children, and penalizes moms for wanting to save money. Friends, that’s not right.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it’s another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

4. Paul Quantrill:

   The guys have been grinding, and they’ve taken some heat in the last weeks, and I thought today was awesome. There was a lot of quality at-bats. They stayed on ’em, with their foot on their necks, as a starting pitcher, there’s just nothing better, right?

5. Stephen Innes:

   The OPEC induced oil rally has come to a grinding halt in the wake of the bearish to consensus API inventory swell, further OPEC cuts are unlikely the cure-all medicine. But by the numbers, the magnitude of the expected oversupply in 2020 is thought to be well within OPEC's ability to manage.

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