aground

[uh-ground]

adverb

1. on or into the ground; in a stranded condition or state.

   The ship ran aground.

aground

/ əˈɡraʊnd /

adverb

1. (postpositive) on or onto the ground or bottom, as in shallow water

Word History and Origins

Origin of aground¹

1250–1300; Middle English. See a- ¹, ground ¹

Example Sentences

It was one of nine ships in the country's small naval fleet, and had been surveying an area of sea floor that had not been mapped in decades when it ran aground.

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The desire of many fire survivors to return to their homes ran aground amid the challenges.

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In May it was widely reported that a container ship called MSC Antonia had run aground in the Red Sea after a suspected GPS spoofing attack.

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On Sunday night, the Castlemore ran aground on a sandbank in the storm and the traffickers on the trawler had to call the Irish coastguard to save them.

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Unlike in Mamdani’s case, Sanders’s primary candidacy ran aground after establishment Democrats united around a single candidate in response to the senator’s early successes in the presidential primary process.

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Related Words

• ashore 
• marooned 
• stranded 
• wrecked