Definition of grinds

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• grinds is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
• grinds is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
• grinds is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10

Definition of grinds

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading (verb)

  Examples

  1. grind the spices in a mortar

  Synonyms

  1. bray
  2. comminute
  3. crunch
  4. mash
• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. grate
• hard monotonous routine work (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. donkeywork
  2. drudgery
  3. plodding
• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. dweeb
  2. nerd
  3. swot
  4. wonk
• the act of grinding to a powder or dust (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. mill
  2. pulverisation
  3. pulverization
• work hard (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. dig
  2. drudge
  3. fag
  4. labor
  5. labour
  6. moil
  7. toil
  8. travail
• press or grind with a crushing noise (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. cranch
  2. craunch
  3. crunch
• created by grinding (verb)

  Examples

  1. grind designs into the glass bowl
• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced (verb)
• shape or form by grinding (verb)

  Examples

  1. grind lenses for glasses and cameras
• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground (noun)

  Examples

  1. a coarse grind of coffee

See definition of grinds in Merriam Webster