" grind (down) "

1: to subject to incapacitating emotional or mental stress;

  * e.g., " ... the workers are being ground down by the long work hours which leave them little time for anything else "

•  Synonyms : 

•  crush,

•  devastate,

•  floor,

•  oppress,

•  overcome,

•  overmaster,

•  overpower,

•  overwhelm,

•  prostrate,

•  snow under,

•  swamp,

•  whelm

•  Antonyms : 

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