grind away

Questions about grind away

What does grind away mean?

grind away means "study intensively, as before an exam".

What is another word for grind away?

Close synonyms include cram, drum, bone up, swot, get up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grind away a common word?

grind away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.