Collocations for "ground"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "ground" in context.
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grind
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- grind (up) [coffee, beef, pepper]
- grind it (up) [finely, to a powder, coarsely]
- grind your teeth (at night)
- grind [steel, a knife, a sword]
- the [gears, engine] ground
- don't grind the [gears]
- come grinding to a [stop, halt]
- the [train, traffic] was grinding along (slowly)
- grind away [at work, at school, on a paper]
- [it] is grinding me down
- was grinding her hips (against him)
- grinding to the music
- and ground it [into the dirt, beneath his heel]
- [will, would] grind you into the dirt
- time to get back to the grind
- well, back to the grind!
- the [weekly, daily] grind
- [escape, get away] from the daily grind
- the slow grind of the [office, legal system]
- hear the grind of [bulldozers, drills, machines]
- the [chisel, knife] could use a good grind
- the [chisel] needs a new grind
- a [course, fine] grind of coffee
- a [course] coffee grind
- sports: do a grind on the [rail, box, curb]
- sexual: wanted a bit of bump and grind
'ground' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
CEO
- above
- acorn
- almond
- anguish
- apartment
- apple
- apricot
- ash
- badger
- ball
- banana
- battle
- bed
- beef
- beneath
- berry
- blackberry
- bladder
- blanket
- blueberry
- bog
- breeding
- broken
- build
- burn
- burrow
- burst
- butt
- ceiling
- chart
- chuck
- cinnamon
- clearance
- coarse
- coffee
- coffin
- collapse
- commit
- common
- contempt
- control
- core
- corn
- couch
- crawl
- cricket
- crunch
- damp
- deep