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.
    • 2019 November 15, Simon Little, “Stranded container barge refloated, moved after running aground on Quadra Island”, in Global News‎[1]:
      The Canadian Coast Guard says a stranded container barge has been refloated, after running aground off Quadra Island over the weekend.
  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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