| 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) somethingMental cruelty can be grounds for divorce.There are strong grounds for believing his statement.have grounds to do somethingDid the police have reasonable grounds to arrest him?on moral/legal/medical etc groundsThe proposal was rejected on environmental grounds.on (the) grounds of somethingFlying was ruled out on grounds of cost.‘You’re under arrest.’ ‘On what grounds?’on the grounds thatWe 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 liquidcoffee grounds → ground |
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