Another word for grinding

grinding Synonyms

grinding

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abrasive, crushing, pulverizing, grating, fricative, rasping, rubbing, milling, powdering, granulating, disintegrating, cracking, reducing to dust, comminutive, triturative, bone-crushing, crunching, splintering, shivering, smashing, crumbling, scraping, chopping, wearing away, eroding.

WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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A grinding noise jerked her attention back to the car.
Steel used for cutting as distinguished from grinding, seems to owe its hardness.
Her knees hit the floor with a grinding jolt, and the fox seized the opportunity.
The surface of this was brought by planing, grinding and other means to the highest possible pitch of smoothness and evenness.
Miihle), the term given to the apparatus or machinery used in the grinding of corn into flour, and hence applied to similar mechanical devices for grinding, crushing to powder, or pulping other substances, e.g.

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