to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work

to ponder; to mull over; to think through; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]

to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist

grindstone; to grind; to turn round

to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away

to polish; to burnish; to shine

(of a donkey etc) to turn a millstone; (fig.) to do laborious and monotonous work

dawdling; to waste time

to torment; to torture

freshly ground

see 球磨機|球磨机[qiu2 mo2 ji1]

electric mill (for grinding wheat etc)

grindstone

milling; to grind; to polish by grinding; to abrade; whetstone; pestle

to mill; to grind; grinding stone

to polish and rub; (fig.) to torment; to torture; (fig.) to engage in discussion to hone an idea or skill

karma (loanword)

wear resistant

rotary grindstone

sluggish; delaying

lit. cutting and polishing (idiom); fig. to learn by exchanging ideas or experiences

the road to happiness is strewn with setbacks (idiom)

lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom); fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood

torture and cruel treatment

lit. with money, you can get a devil to turn a millstone (idiom); fig. with money, you can get anything done; money talks