ground
verb/ɡraʊnd/
/ɡraʊnd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ground | /ɡraʊnd/ /ɡraʊnd/ |
| he / she / it grounds | /ɡraʊndz/ /ɡraʊndz/ |
| past simple grounded | /ˈɡraʊndɪd/ /ˈɡraʊndɪd/ |
| past participle grounded | /ˈɡraʊndɪd/ /ˈɡraʊndɪd/ |
| -ing form grounding | /ˈɡraʊndɪŋ/ /ˈɡraʊndɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] ground (something) when a boat grounds or something grounds it, it touches the ground in shallow water and is unable to move
- The fishing boat had been grounded on rocks off the coast of Cornwall.
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- [transitive, often passive] to prevent an aircraft from taking off
- be grounded (by something) The balloon was grounded by strong winds.
- All planes out of Heathrow have been grounded by the strikes.
- [transitive, usually passive] to punish a child or young person by not allowing them to go out with their friends for a period of time
- be grounded You're grounded for a week!
- (North American English) (British English earth)[transitive, usually passive] to make electrical equipment safe by connecting it to the ground with a wire
- be grounded The spark plugs must be grounded to complete the electrical circuit.
- past tense, past participle of grind see also grounded, grounding
boat
aircraft
child
electricity
Word Originverb Old English grund, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grond and German Grund.
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