run aground

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run aground (third-person singular simple present runs aground, present participle running aground, simple past ran aground, past participle run aground)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
    The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground.

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