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abrade | Wear away. It was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine stinging dust. |
abrasive | A substance that abrades or wears down. Don t use abrasive kitchen cleaners. |
awl | A pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes. |
ax | Chop or split with an ax. Axe wood. |
behead | Cut the head of. Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay. |
brace | Support or hold steady and make steadfast with or as if with a brace. A neck brace. |
chop | Form or shape by chopping. The pile of chop was dropped into the calves feeder. |
craft | An aircraft or spaceship. Art and craft. |
crush | The act of crushing. A labourer was crushed to death by a lorry. |
drudgery | Hard menial or dull work. Domestic drudgery. |
finely | With a very sharp point. Finely chopped almonds. |
flour | Cover with flour. Flour fish or meat before frying it. |
grind | Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together. Only the right grind gives you all the fine flavour. |
grindstone | A thick disc of stone or other abrasive material mounted so as to revolve, used for grinding, sharpening, or polishing metal objects. |
hammer | The sport of throwing a hammer. They hammered St Mirren 4 0. |
heighten | Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars. |
knife | Stab someone with a knife. The victim was knifed to death. |
mash | A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water used in brewing. A bucket of mash. |
mill | Grind with a mill. Mill a coin. |
millstone | Each of two circular stones used for grinding grain. |
pointed | (of a remark or look) expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way. His face tapers to a pointed chin. |
powder | Apply cosmetic powder to the face or body. Then the rose petals are dried and powdered. |
pulverize | Become powder or dust. Pulverize the grains. |
sharp | The sign indicating a sharp. Her sharp eyes missed nothing. |
sharpen | Put (an image) into focus. Her tone sharpened. |
shatter | Upset (someone) greatly. The news of her husband s death shattered her life. |
shred | Reduce documents to unreadable strips by feeding them into a shredder. We have not a shred of evidence to go on. |
squash | Edible fruit of a squash plant eaten as a vegetable. The mournful sound did nothing to squash her high spirits. |
tamp | A tool for tamping e g for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc. He tamped down the tobacco with his thumb. |
whet | Sharpen by rubbing as on a whetstone. He swallowed his two dozen oysters as a whet. |
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