grind vs crush

grind and crush both are nouns.

grind and crush both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grind	Yes	No	Yes	No
crush	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, crush is a hypernym of grind; that is, crush is a word with a broader meaning than grind:

grind: the act of grinding to a powder or dust
crush: the act of crushing

Other hypernyms of grind include compaction, crunch.

grind (noun)	crush (noun)
the act of grinding to a powder or dust	the act of crushing
hard monotonous routine work	temporary love of an adolescent
the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground	a dense crowd of people
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious	leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated

grind (verb)	crush (verb)
reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading	break into small pieces
make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together	become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure
press or grind with a crushing noise	come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
shape or form by grinding	make ineffective
created by grinding	to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
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	crush or bruise
work hard	humiliate or depress completely
	come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

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