transcription, транскрипция: [ graɪndɪŋ ]
1.
If you describe a bad situation as grinding , you mean it never gets better, changes, or ends.
Their grandfather had left his village in order to escape the grinding poverty.
ADJ : ADJ n
• grind‧ing‧ly
Nursing was ill-paid and grindingly hard work.
ADV : ADV adj
2.
If you say that something comes to a grinding halt , you are emphasizing that it stops very suddenly, especially before it was meant to.
A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the petrol tank.
PHRASE : PHR after v [ emphasis ]
3.
see also grind