grind down

1. 1.

   rule a country as a tyrant

   Synonymstyrannizetyrannise

   Broaderdictate

Questions about grind down

What does grind down mean?

grind down means "rule a country as a tyrant".

What is another word for grind down?

Close synonyms include tyrannize, tyrannise. 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 down a common word?

grind down 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.