| 释义 |
make up groundGet closer to someone ahead in a race or competition: he was forced to make up ground after a bad start and was never able to catch the leader...- He made up ground before the convention, and he made up ground - even moving ahead nationally - during the convention.
- He bobbled coming out of the gate and spent most of the race making up ground before flattening out in the stretch and finishing third.
- It was Austria's Kate Allen, who came out of the water 44th out of 50 competitors, gradually made up ground on the bike and finished with a 34-minute run to win by 6.72 seconds.
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