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give ground

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If the GOP moved on taxes, the Democrats would give ground on entitlements, as they have now signaled yet again.

In the North we had to give ground, but not before we had made the enemy pay ten times its value in killed and wounded.

But armed as he was, severe and flash-tempered as he seemed, Mackenzie was not in any sort of a flurry to give ground before him.

Not so; if we must give ground let us retreat in good order, leaving no shield behind us that our enemy may build into his trophy.

After these acts of courtesy, the Russian rear-guard filed off rapidly to give ground to our vanguard.

Merriwell was following Bascomb up like a tiger, and the big fellow was forced to give ground.

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On this page you'll find 374 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to give ground, such as: abandon, admit, back off, back out, backtrack, and balk.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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