GRINDING


Meaning of GRINDING in English

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

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