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running aground
verb as in wreck
Strongest matches
verb as in come a cropper
verb as in miscarry
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- break down
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss fire
- miss the boat
- miss the mark
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
verb as in fail
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- back wrong horse
- be defeated
- be demoted
- be found lacking
- be in vain
- be ruined
- come to naught
- come to nothing
- fall flat
- fall short
- fall through
- go astray
- go down
- go down swinging
- go downhill
- go up in smoke
- go wrong
- hit bottom
- hit the skids
- lose control
- lose out
- lose status
- meet with disaster
- miss the boat
- play into
- run aground
- turn out badly
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Example Sentences
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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