Another word for aground

aground Synonyms

aground

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on the ground, washed ashore, beached, foundered, grounded, stranded, swamped, shipwrecked, reefed, disabled, marooned, on the shore, resting on the bottom, on a rock, stuck in the mud, stuck, stuck fast, not afloat, cast away, wrecked, shoaled, piled up.

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A boat with a keel that sits low in the water can smoothly sail through some bodies of water but will quickly run aground in others.
Shortly after the dynamite disaster a schooner, named Parallel, ran aground, and the north wing of the Cliff House was destroyed.
Grounding: A ship that runs aground in a shallow port or while passing close to land is usually able to free itself without much delay or damage.
The ship was eventually discovered run aground at Diamond Shoals, North Carolina.
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.

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