Ground someone
verb phrase
To deny privileges to someone, esp to keep someone confined at home as a punishment: If my father got a pair of bell-bottoms, I think I’d ground him
[1940s+; fr the practice of not permitting a pilot to fly, as a punishment, the word found by 1931]
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