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GROUND OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground out mean? 

GROUND OUT (verb)
  The verb GROUND OUT has 1 sense:

1. make an out by hitting the ball on the groundplay

  Familiarity information: GROUND OUT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GROUND OUT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make an out by hitting the ball on the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "ground out" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


The storiettes were ground out, jaded, at the end of a long day of application to style.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Again, at the week-ends, he ground out the one hundred and forty miles, obliterating the numbness of too great exertion by the numbness of still greater exertion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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