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in the ground

in the ground prepositional phrase: dead and buried.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Dead and buried.

Questions about in the ground

What does in the ground mean?
In the ground means dead and buried.
What part of speech is in the ground?
In the ground is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the ground in the dictionary

  1. in the green tree … in the dry
  2. in the grip of
  3. in the gristle
  4. in the groove
  5. in the gross
  6. in the ground
  7. in the hand
  8. in the hands of
  9. in the heat of the moment
  10. in the hell
  11. in the here and now

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