aground
adverb or adjective
1
: on the ground
planes aloft and aground
2
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
a ship run aground
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The 300-foot former destroyer ran aground and broke apart as it was being pulled farther out to sea to form an artificial reef, and now sits along the ocean floor about five miles from Key West.
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Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2024
The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
But John Lipscomb, a longtime patrol boat captain and a vice president of Riverkeeper, an environmental group, recalled a 2012 incident in which a 600-foot-long oil tanker ran aground near the Port of Albany.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
The bulk carrier dragged a buoy nearly 400 yards before running aground.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
In that case, a multistory cruise liner carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew ran aground and capsized off Italy’s west coast, killing 32 people, which ended up costing $2 billion — the costliest maritime disaster so far.
—Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The higher estimates could exceed the roughly $1.5 billion paid out after the Costa Concordia crisis in 2012, when 32 people were killed as the cruise ship ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
That’s the federal law passed after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska in 1989, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil into Price William Sound.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
In 1742, amidst a war between Britain and Spain, a British warship ran aground off the Florida Keys.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2024
The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
But John Lipscomb, a longtime patrol boat captain and a vice president of Riverkeeper, an environmental group, recalled a 2012 incident in which a 600-foot-long oil tanker ran aground near the Port of Albany.
—Mike Baker, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
The bulk carrier dragged a buoy nearly 400 yards before running aground.
—USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
In that case, a multistory cruise liner carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew ran aground and capsized off Italy’s west coast, killing 32 people, which ended up costing $2 billion — the costliest maritime disaster so far.
—Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The higher estimates could exceed the roughly $1.5 billion paid out after the Costa Concordia crisis in 2012, when 32 people were killed as the cruise ship ran aground off the Italian island of Giglio.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
That’s the federal law passed after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska in 1989, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil into Price William Sound.
—Ken Roberts, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
In 1742, amidst a war between Britain and Spain, a British warship ran aground off the Florida Keys.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
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aground
adverb or adjective
: on or onto the shore or the bottom of a body of water
the ship ran aground
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