grind to

grind (something) to (something)

To pulverize something into a particular state. My daughter has a hard time swallowing pills, so I grind her antihistamine tablets to a fine powder and put them in her yogurt.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

grind something to something

to keep grinding something until it is something. I ground the fennel seeds to a powder and threw them in the simmering sauce. The wheels of the cars, trucks, and buses had ground the football to a broken mass.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • grind (something) to (something)
  • grind up
  • grind (something) into (something)
  • grind into
  • King Kong pills
  • grind away at (someone or something)
  • crush
  • crush (someone or something) (in)to (something)
  • crush to
  • crushed
References in periodicals archive
Some can grind to accommodate Turkish coffee preparation.
Coffee grinders
Using this equipment, each grinder can grind to size dies of different diameters in a continuous run, with only a change in part programs.
In-process gaging optimizes grinding: on two high precision chuckers for processing stamping dies