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some contexts “grinded” sounds much grindier than “ground.” But I dunno. The verb does not fall felicitously on the ear.
A recipe for Libby’s Famous Pumpkin Pie call for one teaspoon of “grounded cinnamon.” Sounds as if the cinnamon couldn’t use the family car for a month. And there’s not much to be said for The New York Times account of the Hubble telescope. It went out of focus “because of a misgrinded mirror.” For the; foreseeable future let us be good children. Let us stick with “ground.”!
In the same vein, I’d have to vote! against “winded down.” The Shreveport Times gave us “winded down” in January, when many local fans were happily watching the Dallas Cowboys defeat the Philadelphia Eagles. A disconsolate fan of the Eagles “sat quietly as the game winded down.” Wound down, sir. The game wound down.
The next citation also comes from Las Vegas, in an item about a cruise ship that ran aground (agrind?) off Woods Hole, Mass. “The 617-foot Bermuda Star’s hull was holed in
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