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Meaning of grinyolar | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
[ɡɾi.ɲuˈla]

Definitions

  1. to squeak, to creak
    Balearic, Central, Valencia
  2. Equivalent to 'Grit': A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

Equivalents

English Grit

Examples

“L'acció desplaçava la reflexió; quan intentava ponderar les coses el meu cervell s'hi resistia, grinyolava, exactament igual com unes frontisses rovellades.”

Action replaced reflection; when I tried to think things over, my brain resisted and it squeaked, exactly like rusty hinges.

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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