Aground Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-ground
On the bottom of
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. shipwrecked
  2. stranded
Antonyms:
  1. afloat
Stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. on-the-ground
  2. washed ashore
  3. beached
  4. foundered
  5. grounded
  6. stranded
  7. swamped
  8. shipwrecked
  9. reefed
  10. disabled
  11. marooned
  12. on the shore
  13. resting on the bottom
  14. on a rock
  15. stuck in the mud
  16. stuck
  17. stuck fast
  18. not afloat
  19. cast away
  20. wrecked
  21. shoaled
  22. piled-up
Antonyms:
  1. afloat

Words Related to Aground

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Aground Sentence Examples

  • They gave us a wide berth, we were more worried they might run aground.

  • She came under shrapnel fire off the mole, and as she rounded it a star shell showed up the "Intrepid" heading for the canal and the "Thetis" aground.

  • Lifeboat assists grounded creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel fishing boat aground off the Rendall shore.

  • Passing the first of these vessels with terrific broadsides, the "Merrimac" rammed the "Cumberland" and then turned her fire again on the "Congress," which in an attempt to escape ran aground and was there under fire from three other Confederate gun-boats which had meanwhile joined the "Merrimac."

  • The trawler had been driven ashore in severe weather and was hard aground on the Orkneys, at Copinsay.

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