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单词 to get ground
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to get ground
b. to get ground: to make progress, advance. †Also to get ground of (also upon): to encroach upon, obtain the mastery of; to draw away from (pursuers) (obsolete).
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)] > make progress or advance (of action or operation)
fremec1000
furtherc1200
profit1340
to go onc1449
grow1487
to commence to, intoa1500
framea1529
to get ground?1529
movec1540
work1566
promove1570
advance1577
devolve1579
to come on1584
progress1612
to gain ground1625
germinate1640
proceed1670
to gather ground1697
march1702
to make its way1711
to come forward1722
develop1744
to turn a wheel1864
shape1865
come1899
?1529 S. Fish Supplicacyon for Beggers sig. A3 The Turke..shulde neuer be abill to get so moche grounde of cristendome.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 101 Þen the troiens..Getyn þere ground with a gret strenght And frusshet þere fos fer vppo abacke.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iii. 53 If they get ground and vantage of the King, Then ioyne you with them. View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 399 This, the horse fear'd, and more powre Put to their knees, straite getting ground.
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. 127 Being better mounted then they, he quickly got a great deal of ground of them.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical ix. 92 A Feaver..that press'd hard upon a Sick Man, and every Minute got Ground of him.
1737 W. Whiston tr. Tacitus in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. p. cxii The rest of their institutions..got ground by their pravity.
1846 Juvenile Missionary Herald Aug. 191 The Christian race is not to be run by so many fits, but by a constant course and progress; still getting ground upon our lusts; still approaching nearer to the kingdom of heaven.
1882 W. Harris Homiletical Comm. Prov. xv. 426/1 The way of a slothful man is perplexed and letsome, so that he gets no ground, makes no riddance.
1952 Eng. Hist. Rev. 67 554 The Bedford party got ground and began to give him umbrage.
1999 Odds On Feb. 16/1 This brilliant horse richly deserves to win a Gold Cup and finally looks to have a real chance of getting his ground on the big day.
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