grind down

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of GRIND

to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress <the workers are being ground down by the long work hours which leave them little time for anything else>

Synonyms crush, devastate, floor, grind (down), oppress, overcome, overmaster, overpower, prostrate, snow under, swamp, whelm

Related Words deluge, drown, sink; confute, defeat, refute; break, demoralize, distress, disturb, rock, shatter, stagger, throw, unman, unnerve, upset

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