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give ground en · VERB
Meanings
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To retreat.
Those male moose at the southeast arm didn't frighten very much when we docked to fly-fish one day. One was so scared of us he just walked toward us and snorted. We gave ground.
1959, Harold G. (Hack) Miller, “Rod and gun”, in Hearings […] , Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 101:
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(figuratively) To yield an advantage.
Forms
Antonyms
gain ground
Relateds
lose ground
Synonyms
cede the field · turn tail