ground (CAUSE) , house arrest, pardon

Turkish President Abdullah Gul has pardoned former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan on the grounds of ill health. The 81-year-old was placed under house arrest in May after a court ruled that his Islamist Refah Welfare Party, which was banned in 1998, had misused funds.

Definition

pardon━━ n. 容赦, 勘弁 ((for)); 【宗】免罪; 【法】大赦; 特赦状.
house arrest　自宅監禁.

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ground (CAUSE) Show phonetics
noun [C usually plural]
a reason, cause or argument:
She is suing the company on grounds of unfair dismissal.
Do you have any ground for suspecting them?
[+ to infinitive] We have grounds to believe that you have been lying to us.
[+ that] He refused to answer on the grounds that she was unfairly dismissed.

ground Show phonetics
verb FORMAL
be grounded in sth to be based firmly on something:
Fiction should be grounded in reality.
Most phobias are grounded in childhood experiences.
See also well-grounded.

groundless Show phonetics
adjective
without cause:
My fears turned out to be groundless.