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  • 21aground — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

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  • 22aground — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stranded, grounded. See difficulty. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. on the ground, washed ashore, beached, foundered, grounded, stranded, swamped, shipwrecked, reefed, disabled, marooned, on the shore,… …

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  • 23aground — or ‘alaground,’ == on the ground. RG. 378 …

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  • 24aground — a·ground || É™ graÊŠnd adv. onto the shore (as in a ship) …

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  • 25aground — adjective & adverb (with reference to a ship) on or on to the bottom in shallow water …

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  • 26aground — ad. 1. Ashore, not afloat, stranded. 2. Stranded, brought to a stop (for ideas, means, etc.), exhausted in resources, run out …

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  • 27aground — adv, adj 1. grounded, ashore, Naut. beached, Obs. graveled, stuck fast; shipwrecked, wrecked, cast away, swamped, foundering. 2. stranded, high and dry, deserted, abandoned, left in the lurch; straitened, in straits, in a fix, at a loss …

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  • 28aground —   Ili, ilihia, mau, ho omau, oloi …

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  • 29run aground — v. (D; intr.) to run aground on (the boat ran aground on a sandbank) * * * (D; intr.) to run aground on (the boat ran aground on a sandbank) …

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  • 30run aground — verb 1. bring to the ground the storm grounded the ship • Syn: ↑ground, ↑strand • Derivationally related forms: ↑ground (for: ↑ground) • …

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