Usually means: Ship stranded on the bottom.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. aground: Merriam-Webster
  2. aground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aground: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aground: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aground: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aground, aground: Wordnik
  7. aground: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. aground: Wiktionary
  9. aground: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aground: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aground: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Aground, aground: Dictionary.com
  13. aground: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aground: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Aground: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aground: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aground: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aground: Rhymezone
  19. Aground: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aground: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. aground: FreeDictionary.org
  22. aground: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. aground: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. aground: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. aground: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aground: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aground: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. AGROUND: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Aground: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aground)

▸ adjective:  (nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.
▸ adjective:  (by extension) at a loss, ruined, with no way out
▸ adverb:  (nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.

Similar:
beached, shipwrecked, stranded, bare-bottomed, decumbent, unbottomed, high and dry, dead in the water, undermost, boatbound, more...

Types:
beached, stranded, run aground, grounded, more...

Phrases:
ran aground, run aground, running aground, runs aground, hard aground, more...

Adjectives:
hard, dry, tight, high, french, fast, ran, more, little, stern, third

Colors:
    sand,     beige,     taupe,     khaki,     tan, more...


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Similar:
beached, shipwrecked, stranded, bare-bottomed, decumbent, unbottomed, high and dry, dead in the water, undermost, boatbound, more...

Types:
beached, stranded, run aground, grounded, more...

Phrases:
ran aground, run aground, running aground, runs aground, hard aground, place to run aground, more...

Adjectives:
hard, dry, tight, high, french, fast, ran, more, little, stern, third

Colors:
    sand,     beige,     taupe,     khaki,     tan, more...



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