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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cover ground en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.
    • A few times there we even followed you, but you weren’t going anywhere, just wandering, just covering ground. 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
  2. To do a certain amount of work; to make progress towards an end.
    • I'll cover some more ground with the essay after my vacation.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
covered ground Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
covered ground Tense=Past lexicographic
covering ground Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cover the ground alternative lexicographic
covers ground Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

pound the pavement · ground cover