Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) For a vessel to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float. 2 (context transitive English) To cause a vessel to run aground.
WordNet
v. bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" [syn: ground]
hit or reach the ground [syn: ground]
of boats [syn: get stranded]
Usage examples of "run aground".
The trick was to extinguish a navigation light so ships would run aground and be easy prey for the wreckers.
But in the morning they found the boat, run aground on a barren stretch of Mexican coastline about two hundred miles down from the border.
Now we turned our attention to the Invincible, which had run aground in the Gulf outside of Galveston in 1837 and was broken up by pounding surf.
If she couldn't immediately wear round and sail out of the bay again, she'd run aground.
The Lascar pretended that six years before, during a stay at Vanikoro, he had seen two Europeans that belonged to some vessels that had run aground on the reefs some years ago.
And it seems to me there are many narrow channels in these waters, where a sailing ship would have no alternative but to run aground to avoid a collision.
Spite stopped moving, and Bolitho guessed she had run aground again on an extension of the same sand-bar.
A shot, or the splinters it had sent flying, must have killed the man at the wheel so that the ship, temporarily out of control, had run aground.