Synonyms for grind

Noun

1. swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb, learner, scholar, assimilator

usage: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

2. drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork, labor, labour, toil

usage: hard monotonous routine work

3. grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation, crush, crunch, compaction

usage: the act of grinding to a powder or dust

Verb

1. crunch, cranch, craunch, grind, press, grind down

usage: press or grind with a crunching noise

2. grate, grind, break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise

usage: make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"

3. grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute, break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise

usage: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"

4. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil, work, do work

usage: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

5. grind, dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe

usage: dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced