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given ground

given ground is the past participle of give ground.

Meaning of give ground

Verb

give ground (third-person singular simple present gives ground, present participle giving ground, simple past gave ground, past participle given ground)

  1. 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
  2. (figuratively) To yield an advantage.

Questions about given ground

What is given ground the past participle of?
Given ground is the past participle of give ground.

Words near given ground in the dictionary

  1. given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
  2. given face
  3. given forth
  4. given gray hair to
  5. given grey hair to
  6. given ground
  7. given hat
  8. given head
  9. given heed
  10. given her head
  11. given in

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