Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to ground
Participle: grounded
Gerund: grounding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | ground |
| you | ground |
| he;she;it | grounds |
| we | ground |
| you | ground |
| they | ground |
Perfect
| I | have grounded |
| you | have grounded |
| he;she;it | has grounded |
| we | have grounded |
| you | have grounded |
| they | have grounded |
Past
| I | grounded |
| you | grounded |
| he;she;it | grounded |
| we | grounded |
| you | grounded |
| they | grounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had grounded |
| you | had grounded |
| he;she;it | had grounded |
| we | had grounded |
| you | had grounded |
| they | had grounded |
Future
| I | will ground |
| you | will ground |
| he;she;it | will ground |
| we | will ground |
| you | will ground |
| they | will ground |
Future Perfect
| I | will have grounded |
| you | will have grounded |
| he;she;it | will have grounded |
| we | will have grounded |
| you | will have grounded |
| they | will have grounded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | ground |
| you | ground |
| he;she;it | ground |
| we | ground |
| you | ground |
| they | ground |
Perfect
| I | have grounded |
| you | have grounded |
| he;she;it | have grounded |
| we | have grounded |
| you | have grounded |
| they | have grounded |
Imperfect
| I | grounded |
| you | grounded |
| he;she;it | grounded |
| we | grounded |
| you | grounded |
| they | grounded |
Pluperfect
| I | had grounded |
| you | had grounded |
| he;she;it | had grounded |
| we | had grounded |
| you | had grounded |
| they | had grounded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would ground |
| you | would ground |
| he;she;it | would ground |
| we | would ground |
| you | would ground |
| they | would ground |
Perfect
| I | would have grounded |
| you | would have grounded |
| he;she;it | would have grounded |
| we | would have grounded |
| you | would have grounded |
| they | would have grounded |
Imperative
| you | ground |
| we | Let's ground |
| you | ground |
Verbs conjugated like 'ground'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'ground'
round,
abound,
amound,
bound,
croud,
drownd,
enround,
found,
graunt,
grind,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- establish
- found, set, settle, fix, base
- instruct
- educate, train, indoctrinate
Antonyms
- establish
- destroy, liquidate, dissolve, defeat
- instruct
- learn, acquire, absorb, mislead
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
4. Proto-Germanic *grunduz
5. Old English grund
6. Middle English ground
7. English ground
8. From Middle English ground, from Old English grund, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond and German Grund.
9. (to punish): Compare (to bring) down to earth, to come down to earth.
Sample Sentences
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These geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) can become a hazard when they flow through conducting infrastructure, usually entering and exiting networks where equipment is grounded to Earth. [2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:]
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If you don't clean your room, I'll have no choice but to ground you.
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Eric, you are grounded until further notice for lying to us about where you were last night!
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My kids are currently grounded from television.
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Because of the bad weather, all flights were grounded.
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Jim was grounded in maths.
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[Ichiro Suzuki] went 0 for 4, popping out in foul territory, grounding out to second, and striking out looking. And then, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on second, the “True Hit King” grounded out to short, just barely failing to beat it out. [2019 March 21, Chris Cwik, “Ichiro Suzuki Goes Out in Style, Retires After Series in Japan”, in Yahoo! Sports:]
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The Twins scored three times in the eighth to make it 9-4 and loaded the bases with no outs. Jeurys Familia got Willians Astudillo to ground into a double play, limiting the damage. [2019 April 10, Ben Walker (AP), “Twins Pitchers Go Wild, Syndergaard and Mets Stroll 9-6”, in Yahoo! Sports, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2019:]
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The ship grounded on the bar.
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being rooted and grounded in love [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 3:17:]
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So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
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I ground myself with meditation.
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We design WikiChat (Figure 1) to ground LLMs using Wikipedia to achieve the following objectives. While LLMs tend to hallucinate, our chatbot should be factual. [2023, Sina J. Semnani, Violet Z. Yao, Heidi C. Zhang, Monica S. Lam, “WikiChat: A Few-Shot LLM-Based Chatbot Grounded with Wikipedia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
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But the technology has evolved rapidly over the past year or so. Today’s systems can incorporate real-time search and use increasingly sophisticated methods for “grounding”—connecting AI outputs to specific, verifiable knowledge and sourced analysis. [2025 May 9, Mike Caulfield, “AI Is Not Your Friend”, in The Atlantic:]