adjective

definition

(of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.

definition

(by extension) at a loss, ruined, with no way out

adverb

definition

(of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.

Examples of aground in a Sentence

They gave us a wide berth, we were more worried they might run aground.

She came under shrapnel fire off the mole, and as she rounded it a star shell showed up the "Intrepid" heading for the canal and the "Thetis" aground.

Lifeboat assists grounded creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel fishing boat aground off the Rendall shore.

Passing the first of these vessels with terrific broadsides, the "Merrimac" rammed the "Cumberland" and then turned her fire again on the "Congress," which in an attempt to escape ran aground and was there under fire from three other Confederate gun-boats which had meanwhile joined the "Merrimac."

The trawler had been driven ashore in severe weather and was hard aground on the Orkneys, at Copinsay.

Their lives were still firmly aground on the mud of the Greek culture in which they had been brought up.

The running aground off Spain was due to fog and unpredictable currents.

In Alaska, the Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 11 million gallons of oil.

Shortly after the dynamite disaster a schooner, named Parallel, ran aground, and the north wing of the Cliff House was destroyed.

On the 9th of June 1772 the " Gaspee," a British vessel which had been sent over to enforce the acts of trade and navigation, ran aground in Narragansett Bay and was burned to the water's edge by a party of men from Providence.

A boat with a keel that sits low in the water can smoothly sail through some bodies of water but will quickly run aground in others.

His ship, the "Philadelphia," ran aground on the Tunisian coast, and he was for a time imprisoned.

The ship was eventually discovered run aground at Diamond Shoals, North Carolina.

The Federal steam frigates, "Roanoke," "St Lawrence" and "Minnesota" had all gone aground in their trip from Old Point Comfort toward the scene of battle, and only the "Minnesota" was near enough (about i m.) to take any part in the fight.

Dredging machines are kept constantly at work, while steamers are stationed near the most dangerous sandbanks to assist vessels that run aground.

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