grind down

Mortgages for the housing markets, in particular, would fly skyward and grind down the recovery of the housing market.

When they get a chance they grind down their countrymen a deal worse than the Turks do.

He would grind down the people as the Conquistadores did their ancestors.

They may then acquire power sufficient, as the Times once said: "To turn a reform mill which would grind down an abuse a day."

We will sit on the throne of a purple sublimity, And grind down men's bones to a pale unanimity.

And, Cheeseman, you may trust to the honour of the Carnes not to grind down a poor man who has his way to make.'