run aground
Verb
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Verb
run aground (third-person singular simple present runs aground, present participle running aground, simple past ran aground, past participle run aground)
- (intransitive, of a vessel) To be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
- The ship ran aground and had to be towed back out to sea.
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
- The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground.
- French: échouer
- German: auf Grund laufen, auflaufen
- Italian: incagliarsi, arenarsi
- Portuguese: encalhar
- Russian: садиться на мель
- Spanish: encallar, varar, zabordar
- German: auf Grund setzen, auf Grund laufen lassen
- Spanish: encallar
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