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Give ground

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To retreat.

    "Those male moose at the southeast arm didn't frighten very much when we docked to fly-fish one day. One was so scared of us he just walked toward us and snorted. We gave ground."

  2. 2
    To yield an advantage. figuratively

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