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
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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There are a number of ways this process can run aground, first and foremost Hamas’ continued refusal to disarm and demilitarize.
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
In 1908, a 23-year-old Navy officer ran the USS Decatur, a destroyer with a crew of 75 men, aground while entering a harbor in the Philippines.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Rebuilding teams that don’t have veteran players — particularly veterans who can still play at a high level — run a grave risk of running aground.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Nearby lies the Francisco Morazán, a 247-foot-long freighter that smashed into rocks during a 1922 snowstorm; on the same tank, divers can drop by the Walter L. Frost, a wooden steamer that ran aground in 1903, and watch for cold-water fish that congregate on the wrecks, such as eel-like burbots.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
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Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
In 1908, a 23-year-old Navy officer ran the USS Decatur, a destroyer with a crew of 75 men, aground while entering a harbor in the Philippines.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Rebuilding teams that don’t have veteran players — particularly veterans who can still play at a high level — run a grave risk of running aground.
—Josh Robbins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Nearby lies the Francisco Morazán, a 247-foot-long freighter that smashed into rocks during a 1922 snowstorm; on the same tank, divers can drop by the Walter L. Frost, a wooden steamer that ran aground in 1903, and watch for cold-water fish that congregate on the wrecks, such as eel-like burbots.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for aground
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“Aground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aground. Accessed 24 Oct. 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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