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run someone/something to ground
idiom(UK alsorun someone/something to earth)
to find someone or something after a lot of searching and problems: 经过艰难调查而发现；经过艰苦努力而搜寻到
Detectives finally ran the terrorists to ground in an apartment building in Chicago.侦探们历尽艰辛终于在芝加哥的一座公寓楼内挖出了恐怖分子。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Finding and discovering
ascertain
break (fresh/new) groundidiom
breakthrough
bring something to lightidiom
catch someone red-handedidiom
flush someone/something out
fossick
found
geocache
geocaching
homing
pinpoint
plumb
rake something out
red-handed
rediscover
rediscovery
refind
sniff
suss
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