run aground

Verb

Meaning

hit or reach the ground

bring to the ground

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ground beach strand miss fall bomb collapse fail founder sink fold wreck break down stranded abort
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Antonyms

work click advance arrive deliver succeed
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Hypernyms

make land hit reach gain attain

Examples

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

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

Close letter words and terms

run afoul of the law run after run against run ahead run all over run along