Definition for Grinding:

• matter resulting from the process of grinding; " vegetable grindings clogged the drain"

Synonyms for Grinding:

• adj.

  •abrasive (adjective)
  • Powdering,
  • scraping,
  • smashing,
  • Disintegrating,
  • erosive,
  • crushing,
  • Crunching,
  • Crumbling.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • arduous,
  • demanding,
  • thorny,
  • adverse,
  • trying,
  • harsh,
  • strenuous,
  • tough,
  • rough,
  • finicky,
  • formidable,
  • contrary,
  • stressful,
  • cantankerous,
  • wearisome,
  • ticklish,
  • troublesome,
  • severe,
  • bothersome,
  • tight,
  • wearying,
  • burdensome,
  • rugged,
  • laborious,
  • difficult,
  • toilsome,
  • cumbersome,
  • tricky,
  • complex,
  • knotty,
  • fussy,
  • complicated,
  • uphill.
  •hard (adjective)
  • unsparing.

• n.

  •
  • excruciating.
  •abrasive (noun)
  • wearing away.
  •friction (noun)
  • abrasion,
  • resistance.
  •grinding (noun)
  • detrition.

• v.

  •chafing (verb)
  • Harassing,
  • chafing,
  • wearing,
  • Abrading,
  • aggravating,
  • Resisting,
  • disturbing,
  • Fretting,
  • irritating,
  • scrubbing.
  •smoothing (verb)
  • Glossing,
  • Burnishing,
  • Planing,
  • Glazing,
  • polishing,
  • evening,
  • leveling,
  • Sanding,
  • Flattening,
  • Smoothing,
  • Slicking.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • abrasive,
  • autocratic.
  •
  • two-tone.
  •Other relevant words:
  • plodding,
  • inexorable,
  • shining,
  • get,
  • discordant,
  • strait-laced,
  • cutting,
  • dent,
  • Grubbing,
  • grow,
  • Slaving,
  • aristocratic,
  • tyrannical,
  • bitter,
  • study,
  • Headwork,
  • stinging,
  • strident,
  • exhausting,
  • acute,
  • raucously,
  • brainwork,
  • exorbitant,
  • Gnashing,
  • extortionate,
  • loud,
  • restudy,
  • scuff,
  • inclement,
  • scrape,
  • scratching,
  • create,
  • conflict,
  • Overruling,
  • toiling,
  • scratch,
  • appear,
  • jangling,
  • malevolent,
  • repressive,
  • inharmonious,
  • contrition,
  • consuming,
  • acquire,
  • tyrannous,
  • gruelling,
  • sour,
  • molar,
  • excoriation,
  • ablation,
  • strong,
  • poisonous,
  • crude,
  • squeaky,
  • disintegration,
  • contriteness,
  • Catheretic,
  • execute,
  • coercive,
  • trample down,
  • interrupt,
  • absolute,
  • stern,
  • rancorous,
  • jarring,
  • nick,
  • despiteful,
  • scratchy,
  • contend,
  • malign,
  • spiteful,
  • stub out,
  • gratingly,
  • laboring,
  • serious,
  • tear,
  • grazing,
  • hard-nosed,
  • dictatorial,
  • irritant,
  • fragmentation,
  • strict,
  • uncompromising,
  • irritative,
  • rigorous,
  • Overburdensome,
  • rasp,
  • granulation,
  • biting,
  • Levigation,
  • exacting,
  • peremptory,
  • Cramming,
  • Grindingly,
  • application,
  • sharpen,
  • erosion,
  • hairy,
  • glean,
  • corroding,
  • fragmentize,
  • compunction,
  • haughty,
  • imperious,
  • studying,
  • sharp,
  • Pyrotic,
  • working,
  • groove,
  • chafe,
  • mark,
  • toxic,
  • hoarse,
  • obdurate,
  • masterful,
  • bow down,
  • weighty,
  • overbearing,
  • guttural,
  • virulent,
  • acrimonious,
  • Conning,
  • stridulation,
  • practises,
  • tyrannically,
  • coarse,
  • stridor,
  • sore,
  • ablative,
  • scrabble,
  • Comminution,
  • drill,
  • Hard-shell,
  • rigid,
  • Trituration,
  • malicious,
  • stiff,
  • uncharitable,
  • notch,
  • authoritative,
  • monocratic,
  • Mashing,
  • Pegging,
  • review,
  • beating,
  • pulverization,
  • Plugging,
  • severely,
  • searching,
  • jangly,
  • agonizing,
  • scouring,
  • gravelly,
  • practice,
  • engrossment,
  • Gnawing,
  • dour,
  • score,
  • discord,
  • Precisian,
  • intense,
  • venomous,
  • attritive,
  • slogging,
  • caustic,
  • arbitrary,
  • austere,
  • wear,
  • whet,
  • screeching,
  • raspy,
  • despotic,
  • mordacious,
  • acrid,
  • clashing,
  • pounding,
  • lessen,
  • struggling,
  • iron-handed,
  • sandblasting,
  • Hard-headed,
  • positive,
  • drudging,
  • brecciation,
  • scrub,
  • imperial,
  • dispute,
  • Envenomed,
  • abusively,
  • authoritarian,
  • relentless,
  • unmelodious,
  • Inquisitorially,
  • imperative,
  • abusive,
  • hardly,
  • mincing,
  • bossy,
  • sweating,
  • absolutistic,
  • disrupt,
  • Unamiable,
  • feudal,
  • racking,
  • stamp down,
  • tyrannic,
  • suppressive,
  • bad,
  • inquisitorial,
  • inflexible,
  • Limation,
  • perusal,
  • cram,
  • subject,
  • croaking,
  • contemplation,
  • oppressively,
  • bristly,
  • Squawking,
  • absolutist,
  • maleficent,
  • grim,
  • abradant,
  • stridulant,
  • arrogant,
  • Buffing,
  • abrasively,
  • run over,
  • lucubration,
  • reading,
  • hardworking,
  • withering,
  • exercise,
  • straining,
  • Magistral,
  • domineering,
  • lordly,
  • exigent,
  • gritty,
  • creaking,
  • shrill,
  • striving,
  • witheringly,
  • husky,
  • heavy,
  • Boning,
  • disagreement,
  • extortionately,
  • Shredding,
  • venomously,
  • dissension,
  • crush,
  • alter,
  • grave,
  • grind,
  • stringent,
  • cacophonous,
  • develop,
  • dressing,
  • Sharpening,
  • high-handed,
  • eliminate,
  • piercing,
  • erasure,
  • inspection,
  • magisterial,
  • atomization,
  • malignant,
  • filing,
  • dissonant,
  • penitence,
  • break down.

Paraphrases for Grinding:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    milling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    overpowering, overwhelming, stifling, Rectifying, Tolerating, moulding, Correcting, Remedying, glaring, polishing, offsetting, casting, milling.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    milling, grind.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    overriding, Shredding, Honing, squeaking.

Hyponym for Grinding:

• n.

  • event
    noise.
  • object
    particle, molecule, speck, mote, atom, corpuscle.