What does grinding mean?
Grinding means present participle and gerund of grind.
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/ˈɡɹaɪnd.ɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of grind.
Ominous creakings and grindings came from the innards of the machine.
Grinding sometimes involves tight tolerances on the order of a few microns.
No grinding is allowed on the dance floor at the junior prom: it isn't age-appropriate.
I really hate the grinding to get that 1% chance item.
A: Hey Bob, how's it goin? B: Meh, I'm tired of grinding, man.
The meeting came to a grinding halt when the two sides could not agree.
A week of filled with grinding toil.
I saw none of the grinding poverty to which I had become inured, no beggars, no one passed out in the streets or homeless people forced to camp out in parks and doorways.
Use grinding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Grinding means present participle and gerund of grind.
Common synonyms include attrition, abrasion, detrition.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Ominous creakings and grindings came from the innards of the machine.
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