make ground
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Verb
[edit]make ground (third-person singular simple present makes ground, present participle making ground, simple past and past participle made ground)
- (idiomatic) gain ground; make progress.
- 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Replacement Damien Traille burgled a high ball from Israel Dagg and made good ground, the All Blacks scrum coming under increasing pressure and the crowd falling silent as their World Cup dream threatened to become a nightmare.
- 2014, The Telegraph, Ukraine's rebels prepare to defend Donetsk to the death[2]:
- Today the territory carved out for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples' republics" is shrinking fast as the Ukrainian army makes ground.