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aground

[uh-ground]

adverb

  1. on or into the ground; in a stranded condition or state.

    The ship ran aground.



aground

/ əˈɡʊԻ /

adverb

  1. (postpositive) on or onto the ground or bottom, as in shallow water

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of aground1

1250–1300; Middle English. See a- 1, ground 1
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Alas, Courtney’s conception of the film’s true dangerous animal is where the story truly runs aground.

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The watch officer of a large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident.

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A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.

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The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow waters off the remote British island of South Georgia, home to millions of penguins and seals.

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“Whiskey” here refers to the class of Soviet submarine that ran aground off the coast of Sweden on Oct.

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