grind **
grind down

I want to see the place in daylight and grind the case down for a while.

Provided you were not ground down by illness or poverty.

Bosch could see her working the story over, grinding it down.

The idea is to grind his victims down by boring them to death.

As the ice moved along it ground down and shaped the rock.

He has seen too many African countries ground down by men whose only concern was to capture or keep power.

What was wrong with the previous policy of grinding Iraq down by economic sanctions?

Time was grinding down too as my body labored against the drug.

We ground down the ends of the metal, so they wouldn't be too sharp.

And if not, how long would it take to grind him down?