belly vs grind

belly

verb
  • To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly. 

  • To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. 

  • To cause to swell out; to fill. 

noun
  • The stomach. 

  • The main curved portion of a knife blade. 

  • The abdomen, especially a fat one. 

  • The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part). 

  • The womb. 

  • The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. 

  • The lower fuselage of an airplane. 

grind

verb
  • To rotate the hips erotically. 

  • To instill through repetitive teaching. 

  • To oppress, hold down or weaken. 

  • To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank. 

  • To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction. 

  • To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. 

  • To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface. 

  • To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal. 

  • To operate by turning a crank. 

  • To shape with the force of friction. 

  • To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. 

  • To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears. 

  • To eat. 

  • To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing. 

  • To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other. 

  • To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge. 

noun
  • The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. 

  • A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands. 

  • A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans. 

  • A tedious and laborious task. 

  • Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground. 

  • A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard. 

  • Hustle; hard work. 

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