Verb
hit or reach the ground
bring to the ground
Source: WordNetMelancholy 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
the storm grounded the ship Source: Internet
HELSINKI (AP) — A Baltic Sea ferry with 331 passengers and a crew of 98 run aground in heavy storm winds Saturday in the Aland Islands archipelago between Finland and Sweden. Source: Internet
And as for knowing when I’m going to run aground, if my boat draws 6ft, she’ll stop when that’s what the sounder says. Source: Internet