Run-aground Definition

verb
(intransitive) For a vessel to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
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To cause a vessel to run aground.
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Run-aground Sentence Examples

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

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

  • 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.

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

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RRURUN

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DNDUND

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