if a ship runs/goes aground, it touches the ground in shallow water and cannot move:
The oil tanker ran / went aground off the Spanish coast.
aground adjective:
They plan to refloat the ship now aground on the island of Stroma.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for aground is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is aground a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, aground is tagged as adverb.
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