grind out

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar a produção de algo com grande esforço, frequentemente de forma mecânica, penosa ou laboriosa; também pode significar obter algo aos poucos e com dificuldade.

A phrasal verb used to indicate producing something with great effort, often in a mechanical or laborious manner.

incontável · transitivo · phrasal, separável

1. Produce with effortinformal

   To produce something, especially in a routine or laborious way.

   Produzir com esforço

   • The factory grinds out thousands of parts every day.
   • He grinds out a new article for the blog each week.
   • They grind out the same old excuses every time.

   Sinônimoschurn outcrank outhammer outturn out

2. Extinguish by pressinginformal

   To put out a cigarette or cigar by pressing it against a hard surface.

   Apagar pressionando

   • He ground out his cigarette on the pavement.
   • She ground out the cigar in the ashtray.
   • Please grind out your cigarette before entering the building.

   Sinônimoscrush output outsnuff outstamp outstub out

Verbo basegrind