run aground

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Verb	1.	run aground - bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" strand, ground land - bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
	2.	run aground - hit or reach the ground ground arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

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aground
arrive at
attain
barrier
gain
ground
ground out
grounding
grounds
hit

Land
make
oil
reach
ridge
sand bar
sandbar
Strand
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The Lascar pretended that six years before, during a stay at Vanikoro, he had seen two Europeans that belonged to some vessels that had run aground on the reefs some years ago.

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context

In this predicament, Captain Sublette found them, in a manner becalmed, or rather run aground, at the little frontier town of Independence, in Missouri, and kindly took them in tow.

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context

I ordered sufficient water let into the diving-tanks to lower us about a foot, and then I ran the bow slowly toward the shore, confident that should we run aground, we still had sufficient lifting force to free us when the water should be pumped out of the tanks; but the bow nosed its way gently into the reeds and touched the shore with the keel still clear.

The Land That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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