aground

Speech parts

1. aground - Adjective

2. aground - Adverb

Meaning

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

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Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. Cyril Connolly

Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago. E. Lee Spence

All philosophical sects have run aground on the reef of moral and physical ill. It only remains for us to confess that God, having acted for the best, had not been able to do better. Voltaire

All the diamonds in this world That mean anything to me Are conjured up by wind and sunlight sparkling on the sea I ran aground in a harbor town Lost the taste for being free Thank God he sent some gull chased ship To carry me to sea... Bruce Cockburn

a ship aground offshore Source: Internet

a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it Source: Internet

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