aground
adverb or adjective
1
: on the ground
planes aloft and aground
2
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
a ship run aground
Examples of aground in a Sentence
the villagers came to stare at the foreign ship that was aground on their beach and at the strangely dressed sailors on board
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Right now the best advice for tsunami avoidance on a ship is to either run the ship aground and hope for the best, or head for deeper ocean and hope for the best.
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Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
Its repercussions will be… Beyond the Trade War The Trump administration's trade war has run aground—and the United States needs a new China strategy.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The Barker wasn't the only ship that ran aground in 2023.
—Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
In 2007, a pair of brothers (printers based in Norfolk) discovered the wreck of the Gloucester, which ran aground on a sandbank off the coast of Norfolk in 1682 and sank within the hour.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
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Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
Its repercussions will be… Beyond the Trade War The Trump administration's trade war has run aground—and the United States needs a new China strategy.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
The Barker wasn't the only ship that ran aground in 2023.
—Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
In 2007, a pair of brothers (printers based in Norfolk) discovered the wreck of the Gloucester, which ran aground on a sandbank off the coast of Norfolk in 1682 and sank within the hour.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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aground
adverb or adjective
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
the ship ran aground
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