Aground Definition

ə-ground
adjective
Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water.
A ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore.
American Heritage
On the ground.
Combat aircraft aloft and aground.
American Heritage

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

Wiktionary
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adverb
On or onto the shore, the bottom, a reef, etc.
The ship ran aground.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Aground

  • From Middle English agrounde, on grounde (“on ground”), equivalent to a- +‎ ground.

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Aground Sentence Examples

  • 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.

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