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 ran aground during the storm.
Examples of aground in a Sentence
the villagers came to stare at the foreign ship that was aground on their beach and at the strangely dressed sailors on board
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Trump's approach to China has run aground, giving Beijing unprecedented advantage in the economic conflict.
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Edward Fishman, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
And in this dangerous decade climate disasters have continued to intensify — from the massive hurricane that walloped Puerto Rico in 2017, to Jamaica this October where the most powerful Atlantic storm on record came aground.
—John D. Sutter, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Despite early reports claiming the ship ran aground on a shoal, Mixter said divers found there were no scrapes on the bottom of the overturned stern.
—Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
The shutdown stalemate is an indictment of Congress, where a smattering of bipartisan discussions have run aground and Democrats have blocked the House’s stopgap bill nine times so far.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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Edward Fishman, Time, 21 Nov. 2025
And in this dangerous decade climate disasters have continued to intensify — from the massive hurricane that walloped Puerto Rico in 2017, to Jamaica this October where the most powerful Atlantic storm on record came aground.
—John D. Sutter, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Despite early reports claiming the ship ran aground on a shoal, Mixter said divers found there were no scrapes on the bottom of the overturned stern.
—Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
The shutdown stalemate is an indictment of Congress, where a smattering of bipartisan discussions have run aground and Democrats have blocked the House’s stopgap bill nine times so far.
—Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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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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