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, avarice, covetousness
greedy : avaricious, desirous, covetous
greet : accost / verb [transitive]
to go towards someone you do not know and speak to them in an unpleasant or threatening way: On the station she was accosted by a man asking for money., salute
grief : sorrow, woe, sadness
grieve : lament, mourn, sorrow, bewail / / verb [transitive]
literary to express deep sadness or disappointment about something
grind1 /graInd/ verb past tense and past participle ground /graUnd/

1 INTO SMALL PIECES [transitive]

a) also grind up [transitive] to break something such as corn or coffee beans into small pieces or powder, either in a machine or between two hard surfaces

b) AmE to cut food, especially raw meat, into very small pieces by putting it through a machine: mince1 (1) BrE

2 SMOOTH/SHARP [transitive] to make something smooth or sharp by rubbing it on a hard surface or by using a machine: a stone for grinding knives and scissors | The lenses are ground to a high standard of precision.

3 PRESS STH DOWN [transitive always + adv/prep] to press something down into a surface and rub it with a strong twisting movement : grind sth into/in: He dropped a cigar butt and ground it into the carpet with his heel.

4 grind your teeth to rub your upper and lower teeth together making a noise

5 grind to a halt

a) if a vehicle grinds to a halt, it stops gradually: Traffic ground to a halt as it approached the accident site.

b) if a country, organization, or process grinds to a halt, it gradually stops working: As more and more workers joined the strike, Britain's economy was grinding to a halt.

6 grind the faces of the poor to make poor people work very hard and give them almost nothing in return

also have an axe to grind axe1 (4)

grind sb down phrasal verb [transitive]

to treat someone in a cruel way for such a long time that they lose all courage and hope; oppress: Years of dictatorship had ground the people down.

grind on phrasal verb [intransitive]

to continue for an unpleasantly long time: Winter grinds on until March.

grind sth out phrasal verb [transitive]

to produce information, writing, music etc in such large amounts that it becomes boring: Frank just keeps grinding out detective stories.