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make ground en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) gain ground; make progress.
    • Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare. 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
    • Today the territory carved out for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples' republics" is shrinking fast as the Ukrainian army makes ground. 2014, The Telegraph, Ukraine's rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death:

Forms

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makes ground Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
making ground Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made ground Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
made ground Tense=Past lexicographic