grind
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5.6
- noun
- /ɡraɪnd/
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rutina
- Working long hours at the office felt like a daily grind for him.
- daily grind
And that can be a real grind playing the same card game.
- And that can be a real grind playing the same card game.
- But yeah, going from the ground to the top is going to be a grind.
- It's just pure grind mentality and I've been there.
- We all want the golds, but we don't love the grind.
- But when you know there wasn't no grind for him, the grind was you, that changes everything.
- Uh oh, You always say I'm lazy, but I'm here on my grind while you're just killing babies.
Examples
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Audiences answered "Yes" to the familiar questions that opened Escape: "Tired of the everyday grind?"
Academic text (2015) -
You gotta work on their dreams... get them out of their daily suburban grind for a few hours.
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It's a grind for all of the soldiers.
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And that can be a real grind playing the same card game.
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But yeah, going from the ground to the top is going to be a grind.
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In the daily grind, it is easy to lose track of time.
Academic text (2011) -
People need drama in order to make the day-to-day grind, but that is just my opinion.
Blog text (11) -
Lack of time saps the will and turns the daily round into a grind.
Academic text (1999) -
Greatness is born out of the grind, so embrace the grind.
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Every day's a grind.
Synonyms
13
7.0
Boring, hard work that you do again and again
10
5.3
Boring, simple jobs that are necessary and take a lot of time
4
4.2
A boring, tiring routine of everyday work and chores
A lot of hard, boring work that others avoid but must be done
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A small music machine you turn by hand to play tunes from a cylinder with pegs
How Tedious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grind for hard, boring routine comes from the slow, tiring work of grinding grain day after day. So the 'grind' of life is the repeated, wearing work you must do.