aground adj : on a shore or reef; "a ship aground offshore"; "a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it" [syn: aground(p)] [ant: sunken, afloat(p)] adv : with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship aground"

English

Adjective

aground

1. Resting on the bottom. (refers only to floating craft) (FM 55-501).
2. Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined; like a boat or vessel aground.

Adverb

aground

1. Resting on the bottom. (refers only to floating craft). (FM 55-501).

Translations

• Finnish: karilla (being aground), karille (running aground)

See also

• ashore

anchored, beached, castaway, caught, chained, fast, fastened, fixed, foundered, grounded, hard and fast, held, high and dry, impacted, inextricable, jammed, marooned, moored, on the rocks, packed, set fast, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, swamped, tethered, tied, transfixed, wedged, wrecked