ground out

Speech parts

1. ground out - Noun

2. ground out - Verb

Meaning

make an out by hitting the ball on the ground

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Examples

I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum. Woody Allen

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. Napoleon Hill

Embodied imitation and dramatic abstraction constituted the ground out of which higher abstract cognition emerged. How else could it be? Clearly we were mostly bodies before we were minds. Clearly. And so we were acting out things way before we understood them. Jordan Peterson

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. H. G. Wells

Although Sandel induced Robinson to ground out at his first at bat, in his five trips to the plate, Robinson ended up with four hits, including his first hit, a three-run home run, in the game's third inning. Source: Internet

Damaged areas are cut or ground out, then welded back up to their original or an improved profile. Source: Internet

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