Synonyms of grounded

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adjective

as in landed

resting on the shore or bottom of a body of water

once his boat was grounded, all he could do was wait for the tide to come back in and raise it off the sand bar

Synonyms & Similar Words

• landed
• stranded
• beached
• aground
• high and dry
• alongshore

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• offshore
• afloat

grounded

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verb

past tense of ground

as in based

to find a basis

you're grounding your entire case on circumstantial evidence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• based
• predicated
• rested
• hanged
• founded
• established
• hung
• presumed
• postulated
• premised
• supposed
• presupposed
• assumed