cover ground
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English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]cover ground (third-person singular simple present covers ground, present participle covering ground, simple past and past participle covered ground)
- To move across an area; to traverse a certain distance.
- 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
- A few times there we even followed you, but you weren’t going anywhere, just wandering, just covering ground.
- To do a certain amount of work; to make progress towards an end.
- I'll cover some more ground with the essay after my vacation.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cover ground”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “cover ground”, in Collins English Dictionary.