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covering ground

covering ground is the present participle and gerund of cover ground.

Meaning of cover ground

Verb

cover ground (third-person singular simple present covers ground, present participle covering ground, simple past and past participle covered ground)

  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.

Questions about covering ground

What is covering ground the present participle and gerund of?
Covering ground is the present participle and gerund of cover ground.

Words near covering ground in the dictionary

  1. coverholders
  2. coveries
  3. coverin'
  4. covering
  5. covering fire
  6. covering ground
  7. covering horse
  8. covering horses
  9. covering index
  10. covering indexes
  11. covering letter

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