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grinding

 adjective
     
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grind‧ing [only before noun]
1 very difficult and unpleasant, and never seeming to improve:
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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