grinding - Definition from the COLOURS AND SOUNDS topic - COLOURS AND SOUNDS

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grinding
adjective

grind‧ing

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[only before noun]

1 very difficult and unpleasant, and never seeming to improve:

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a country devastated by civil war and grinding poverty

2C a grinding noise is the continuous unpleasant noise of machinery parts rubbing together

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