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0 the surface of the earth:
1 a reason, cause, or argument:
UK Do you have any ground for suspecting them?
[ + to infinitive ] We have grounds to believe that you have been lying to us.
[ + that ] He refused to answer on the grounds that the question violated his rights to privacy.
2 an area of knowledge or experience:
When the conversation turns to politics he's on familiar ground (= he knows a lot about this subject).
Once we'd found some common ground (= things we both knew about) we got along very well together.
The lectures covered a lot of ground (= included information on many different subjects).
I enjoyed her first novel, but I felt in the second she was going over the same ground (= dealing with the same area of experience).
3 a wire that makes a connection between a piece of electrical equipment and the ground, so the user is protected from feeling an electric shock if the equipment develops a fault
4 the small grains of coffee left at the bottom of a cup or other container that has had coffee in it
5 past simple and past participle of grind
6 If a ship is grounded, it cannot move because it has hit solid ground:
7 to forbid (= refuse to allow) a child or young person from going out as a punishment:
8 to connect a piece of electrical equipment to the ground with a wire:
9 to be based firmly on something:
Fiction should be grounded in reality.
Most phobias are grounded in childhood experiences.
10 past simple and past participle of grind
12 an area of knowledge or experience; a subject:
14 a connection between a piece of electrical equipment and the earth, or a wire that makes this connection
15 to punish an older child by not allowing the child to go out or be involved in social activities:
16 to have a reason, cause, or argument for your actions or beliefs:
His beliefs are grounded in his experience.
17 to put or keep on the ground:
18 a reason for something:
on (the) grounds of sth The doctor refused to surrender patient records on grounds of confidentiality.
on the grounds that Researchers shut down the trial on the grounds that the vaccine was proving ineffective
grounds for sth Only 13 of the contracts examined listed incompetence as legitimate grounds for dismissal.
on health/environmental/legal grounds The college was shut on health and safety grounds.
19 to make someone work very hard, especially so that they become ill or extremely tired:
20 to use something so much that it breaks or stops working:
21 to become more popular or successful:
22 if a project or activity gets off the ground, it starts or starts to be successful:
There is a difference between a project which never gets off the ground and one which suddenly goes bad.
23 to start a project or activity or to start making it successful:
24 to become less popular or successful:
25 to prevent a ship or aircraft from sailing or flying:
The bad weather meant that helicopters were grounded.
