adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grinding halt (= one that happens slowly – used for emphasis )
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One accident can bring the whole road system to a grinding halt.
abject/grinding/dire poverty (= extremely severe )
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He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
corn
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Today, Oil Mill is still at work grinding corn , much of the original structure still surviving.
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On the far side of the village was a small water mill, probably used for grinding corn .
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The Apache women rubbing skins and grinding corn , their hair greasy and full of vermin.
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Much of the original wooden machinery is intact - it was used to drive two pairs of millstones for grinding corn .
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Damsell's was one of the latter for, by the mid-1840s the firm of Lord and Archer were grinding corn there.
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The mill was used for grinding corn until the seventeenth century.
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Although no longer used commercially, it was apparently put to occasional use grinding corn up to the start of the First World War.
poverty
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There is no visible grinding poverty and no antagonism towards tourists.
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Yet, regrettably, the lasting impression is of a merely superficial look at grinding poverty .
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Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A grinding ache grew within her, grew and intensified.
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A terrible grinding crunch struck at us like a solid barrier.
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There is no visible grinding poverty and no antagonism towards tourists.