grind to a halt
grind
noun[ U ]
 infmlus/ɡrɑɪnd/

grindnoun[U] (ACTIVITY)

difficult or unpleasant activity that is tiring or repeated too often:
Karen came to the hotel for a rest from the daily grind.

grind | Business English

grind
noun[ S ]
 informaluk /ɡraɪnd/us
a difficult or boring activity that needs a lot of effort:
He recalls the grind of working his day job and then in a bar at night.
 the daily grind
employment, especially when this consists of boring activities:
The recession has driven many would-be-retirees back to the daily grind.
grind
verb[ T ]
uk /ɡraɪnd/usground | ground
 grind to a halt/standstill
to stop gradually:
Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather.

Examples of grind

grind
The perforated disks were created by reworking a potsherd into a circular form by chipping, drilling, and then grinding the edges to a smooth finish.
Samples from the normal smooth surface of the gneiss boulder show that the surface has been ground and polished during glacial transportation.
The soil was gently ground, passed through a 2-mm sieve and completely mixed prior to being placed in pots.
A p-rule is ground exactly when every atom in it is ground.
Time to stop the little saltmill grinding, before everything else has become bitter.
In cases of the latter sort, the values that ground our attitudes are not truly our own.
The tissue was dried by grinding with anhydrous sodium sulfate and extracted with several volumes of hexane to remove carotenoids, retinols, and retinyl esters.
Where the standards were unclear, gover nment officials faced the dilemma of how to ground the political justification for authoritative direction of private voluntary relationships.
The key to the answer lies in whether it is judged appropriate to ground primal faith on the quadriplegic nature of divine activity.
The remaining part of the body was ground in a small bowl with physiological saline.
Thus, the customers' utilities ground the utilities of the other constraints.
The sides were glowing and going round, grinding out a familiar rumble.
Instead, this analysis aims at characterizing the nature of grinding activities in larger par ts of the city.
Both features favor long, extended grinding strokes instead of the shor t, downward crushing strokes of less intensive grinding.
The latter manos vary considerably, being too small, too large, or too irregularly shaped for grinding large amounts of maize on a daily basis.
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