单词 | grounds |
释义 | groundsWord family (noun) ground underground grounding grounds (adjective) goundless underground ≠ overground grounded (verb) ground (adverb) underground From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgroundsgrounds[plural] a good reason for doing, believing, or saying somethinggrounds for (doing) somethinggrounds for divorce. Mental cruelty can be strong grounds for believing his statement. There are have grounds to do somethingreasonable grounds to arrest him? Did the police have on moral/legal/medical etc grounds The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.on (the) grounds of something Flying was ruled out on grounds of cost. ‘You’re under arrest.’ ‘On what grounds?’on the grounds that We oppose the bill, on the grounds that it discriminates against women. → groundExamples from the Corpuson the grounds that• Zoe was awarded compensation on the grounds that the doctor had been negligent.groundsgrounds[plural]DFD small pieces of solid material that sink to the bottom of a liquid coffee grounds → ground |
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