1. To become or make sore by or as if by rubbing; SYN. gall, fret.
2. To make sore by abrading.
3. To warm by rubbing, as with the hands.
ETYM OF grater to scrape, scratch, French gratter, Late Lat. gratare, cratare; of German origin; cf. Old High Germ. chrazzôn German kratzen, Dutch krassen, Swed. Kratta, and perh. Eng. scratch.
(Homonym: great).
To make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; SYN. grind.
(Irregular preterit, past participle: ground).
1. To dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way.
2. To reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; SYN. mash, crunch, bray, comminute.