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abrasive
Harsh and rough in manner:
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  1. Harsh and rough in manner:
  2. Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface. [First attested in 1805.]
  3. Causing abrasion:
crushing
Hurtful or demoralizing
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  1. Hurtful or demoralizing
  2. Overwhelming or decisive
grating
Harsh and rasping
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  1. Harsh and rasping
  2. Irritating or annoying
fricative
Of, relating to, or being a fricative consonant.
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  1. Of, relating to, or being a fricative consonant.
  2. (Phonet.) Articulated by means of breath forced through a narrow slit formed at some point in the mouth, producing friction, as in (f, v, , z, h)
cracking
Excellent; fine
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  1. Excellent; fine
  2. Excellent; great:
  3. The process of breaking down complex chemical compounds by heating them. Sometimes a catalyst is added to lower the amount of heat needed for the reaction. Cracking is used especially for breaking petroleum molecules into shorter molecules and to extract low-boiling fractions, such as gasoline, from petroleum.
smashing
(Informal) Outstandingly good; extraordinary
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  1. (Informal) Outstandingly good; extraordinary
  2. Serving to smash:
  3. (Informal) Extraordinarily impressive or fine; wonderful:
chopping
Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
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  1. Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
Find another word for grinding. In this page you can discover 25 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for grinding, like: abrasive, crushing, pulverizing, grating, fricative, rasping, rubbing, milling, powdering, granulating and disintegrating.

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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.

  • Both the grinding and polishing tools are grooved, to obtain a uniform distribution of the emery used in the grinding process and of the rouge employed in polishing, as also to provide for the lateral expansion of the pitch with which the polisher is coated.

  • 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.

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