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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aground
adverb
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■ VERB
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▪ Lifeboats also stood by the yacht Giaconda as it waited to refloat after going aground near the entrance to the River Colne.
▪ Another yacht which went aground near the approaches to the River Crouch managed to refloat before help arrived.
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▪ Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
▪ Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
▪ The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
▪ At least 20 others were run aground, driven into sand bars by huge waves and winds topping 100 miles per hour.
▪ The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
▪ The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.
▪ Of possession as the delusion we all run aground on.
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▪ At least 20 others were run aground, driven into sand bars by huge waves and winds topping 100 miles per hour.
▪ Normally, the pilot would have been on board before the ship ran aground 100 yards off the Tower of Hercules navigation light.
▪ The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.
▪ The captain and crew of the oil tanker that ran aground on the Galapagos have been arrested.
▪ The casualty could be seen aground on the Mid Haisbro Sand, lifting slightly in the moderate swell.
▪ The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aground

Aground \A*ground"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + ground.] On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
--Totten.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aground

late 13c., "on the ground," from a- "on" (see a- (1)) + ground (n.). Of ships and boats, "stranded," from c.1500.

Wiktionary
aground

a. 1 (context nautical of a normally floating craft English) Resting on the bottom. 2 (context 1811 English) Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined, like a boat that has run aground. adv. (context nautical of a normally floating craft English) Resting on the bottom.

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WordNet
aground

  1. adj. on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it" [syn: aground(p)] [ant: sunken, afloat(p)]

  2. adv. with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship aground"

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Usage examples of "aground".

If you are going to go aground, for preference always choose a sandy shoal.

I was angry with myself for going aground - we could not haul the ship round to bring all the guns to bear where we wan ted them.

When Ramage described how the two frigates had gone aground on the shoal, the Admiral sniffed but made no comment.

Ramage said, relieved that the Admiral had not added a stronger condemnation about him going aground, a factor which had seemed to absorb him, at least temporarily.

More freighters, with streaks of rust on their sides where they had lain aground for tens of years.

Momnets later, everyone still in the basket recognized the sensation as their craft ran aground on an oozy surface.

The raft had, somehow, worked its way over toward the starboard bank, thick with trees, and with a lurch and a scrape had run aground on a sandbar.

Too much of the raft was aground, however, for this maneuver to prove of much use.

Ged veered the boat once more, thinking he had run his enemy to ground: in that instant it vanished, and it was his boat that ran aground, smashing up on shoal rocks that the blowing mist had hidden from his sight.

There is a tale told in the East Reach of a boat that ran aground, days out from any shore, over the abyss of ocean.

Admiral Bossu, seeing that further resistance was useless, and that his ship was aground on a hostile shore, his fleet dispersed and three-quarters of his soldiers and crew dead or disabled, struck his flag and surrendered with 300 prisoners.

The tide ebbed and left his ship aground, while the other vessels were beaten back.

As for the ship, she might run hard aground again even closer to shore than last time, plowing shoreward as fast as she was coming now.

But the waters were full of low-tide shallows where the ships ran aground, and the coastline was confusing because what seemed to be harbors were merely straits between islands and the coast, and what seemed to be straits sometimes proved to be the wide mouths of shallow rivers.

We had no tide tables now, but Blake reckoned the ship had gone aground about an hour or at the most two hours after low water.