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make ground

make ground verb: gain ground; make progress.

Verb

make ground (third-person singular simple present makes ground, present participle making ground, simple past and past participle made ground)

  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 of make ground

third-person singular presentmakes ground
present participlemaking ground
past participlemade ground
pastmade ground

Questions about make ground

What does make ground mean?
Make ground means gain ground; make progress.
What part of speech is make ground?
Make ground is a verb.
What is the past tense of make ground?
The past tense of make ground is made ground.

Words near make ground in the dictionary

  1. make garden
  2. make good
  3. make good on
  4. make good one's running
  5. make good time
  6. make ground
  7. make happen
  8. make hard work of
  9. make haste
  10. make haste slowly
  11. make hay

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