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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 ground
Familiarity information: GROUND OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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