Aground
[ə'graʊnd] or [ə'ɡraʊnd]
Definition
(adj.) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float; 'a ship aground offshore'; 'a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it' .
(adv.) with the bottom lodged on the ground; 'he ran the ship aground'.
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Definition
(adv. & a.) On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
Typist: Loretta
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Ashore, not afloat.[2]. Stranded, wrecked, cast away.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strained, ashore
ANT:Afloat, off
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Definition
adv. stranded.
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Examples
- During the progress of this keen encounter, the vessel Chadband, being merely engaged in the oil trade, gets aground and waits to be floated off. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Running aground, he was obliged to abandon his vessel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One ship only went aground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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