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groundadjective having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce somethingchopping wood with a finely ground axe cutting, edged, edgy, honed, keen, sharp, sharpened, stropped, trenchant, whetted clawlike, daggerlike, knifelikejabbing, jagged, lacerating, piercing, scratching, stabbingpointed, pointy, spiky(also spikey) blunt, blunted, dull, dulled, obtuse rounded, smoothsofteven, flat, level, slick grounds pl.the area around and belonging to a buildingan escorted tour of the White House and its surrounding grounds demesne, park, premises(also premisses), yard acres, estate, land, lot, parcel, plot, property, real estate, realtycampusbackyard, churchyard, dooryardclose, enclosure(also inclosure), garden, garth, plaza grounds pl.matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquidstrain the coffee to remove the grounds deposit, deposition, dregs, precipitate, sediment, settlings leesooze, silt, sludgedross, slag, waste grounds pl.something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thingevicted the tenants on the grounds that they violated the lease account, authority, motive, reason, subject, wherefore, why antecedent, cause, consideration, impetus, incentive, inspiration, instigation, occasion, stimulus a small area of usually open landI'll meet you at the parade ground in two hours clearing, field, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract common(s), croft(chiefly British)grass, green, greensward, lawnglade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea(or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland an immaterial thing upon which something else restsopposed to the notion that religious law should be used as a ground for civil law base, basis, bedrock, bottom, cornerstone, footing, foundation, groundwork, keystone, root, underpinning, warp, warp and woof anchorage, bed, brace, bulwark, buttress, framework, infrastructure, mount, prop, shore, stay, substratum, substructure, supportassumption, justification, premise(also premiss), presumption, presupposition, rationale, supposition, theory, thesis, warrantbackbone, center, core, eye, focus, heart, hub, kernel, nucleus, seatessence, quintessence, soul, touchstone the loose surface material in which plants naturally growstuck the shovel in the ground and went inside for a glass of water clod, dirt, earth, mold, soil blackland, clay, gault(chiefly British), gley, guck(or gook), gumbo, kaolin, muck, muddust, gravel, sandhumus, loam, topsoilalluvium, colluvium, detritus, loess, marl, sediment, shingle, siltduff, mullsubsoil, substratum the physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewedtake her picture against a blue ground in order to bring out her blue eyes backdrop, background mise-en-scène, scene, scenery, set, stageentourage, environment, milieu, setting, surroundings foregroundcenter, focal point, focus, heart the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and airwas glad to be back on the ground after a turbulent flight dirt, dust, earth, land, soil, terra firma continent, landmass, zoneisland, isthmus, mainland, peninsula to find a basisyou're grounding your entire case on circumstantial evidence base, hang, predicate, rest establish, foundassume, postulate, premise, presume, presuppose, suppose before the 12th century |