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aground

adverb as in on the bottom of

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On Sunday night, the Castlemore ran aground on a sandbank in the storm and the traffickers on the trawler had to call the Irish coastguard to save them.

From BBC

Unlike in Mamdani’s case, Sanders’s primary candidacy ran aground after establishment Democrats united around a single candidate in response to the senator’s early successes in the presidential primary process.

From Salon

Alas, Courtney’s conception of the film’s true dangerous animal is where the story truly runs aground.

The watch officer of a large container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident.

From BBC

A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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