singular present tocește, past participle tocit) 4th conj. to blunt, dull, wear down, grind away at conjugation of toci (fourth conjugation, -esc- infix)...
From grinding + -ly. grindingly (comparative more grindingly, superlative most grindingly) With a grinding sound or motion. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds...
Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […].” 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh...
reaming, turning (OD counterpart); milling, broaching, shaping, planing, grinding turning and boring fine boring with a boring head on a boring mill A pit...
from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to grind; to rub; to stroke; to remove”), perhaps in the sense of the grinding of pigments) + -τῐκός (-tikós, suffix...
attributively) A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour. Synonym: drabcloth 1786, “Letter X”, in Examinator’s...
aground — see run aground Inflected form of grind. See also milled. ground simple past and past participle of grind I ground the coffee up nicely. ground (not...
Müll, and müll (UK, US) IPA(key): /mʌl/ Rhymes: -ʌl Related to mill (“to grind”). mull (third-person singular simple present mulls, present participle...
Hyphenation: mò‧la From Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”). mola f (plural mole) millstone grindstone honing (historical,...
-uːt From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us...