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running aground

verb as in come a cropper

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He'll just potter on down the islands, running aground and kedging-off, and arrive about Christmas.'

It is well known that the ship was lost on the same coast by running aground, although the Hollanders hide the fact.

His own ship led the way, when a sudden violence of the tide made Gama apprehensive of running aground.

We found she'd started a plank running aground on the beach, and that 'twould take us a week to get her afloat and watertight.

Some of the men ride on the rafts and guide them by means of long poles tipped with steel, to prevent them from running aground.

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On this page you'll find 207 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to run aground, such as: aground, ashore, grounded, helpless, wrecked, and beached.

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

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