Grinding Synonyms and Antonyms

Oppress
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. annoying
  2. harassing
  3. persecuting
Antonyms:
  1. liberating
  2. freeing
Press or grind with a crushing noise
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. crunching
  2. grating
  3. rubbing
  4. whetting
The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abrasion
  2. attrition
  3. detrition
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. abrasive
  2. pulverizing
  3. fricative
  4. cracking
  5. reducing to dust
  6. comminutive
  7. triturative
  8. bone-crushing
  9. splintering
  10. smashing
  11. chopping
  12. wearing away
  13. eroding

Grinding Sentence Examples

  • A grinding noise jerked her attention back to the car.

  • Her knees hit the floor with a grinding jolt, and the fox seized the opportunity.

  • His teeth were grinding loudly enough for her to hear, and his face was ashen and drawn in a look of pain.  He couldn't answer – that much she discerned at the rippling muscles of his clenched jaw.

  • Definitely not a virgin, not the way she was grinding up against Joe Jock.

  • There wasn't any bumping and grinding and those beds are noisy.

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