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run aground (third-person singular simple present runs aground, present participle running aground, simple past ran aground, past participle run aground)
- (intransitive, of a vessel) To be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
The ship ran aground and had to be towed back out to sea.
2019 November 15, Simon Little, “Stranded container barge refloated, moved after running aground on Quadra Island”, in Global News[1]:The Canadian Coast Guard says a stranded container barge has been refloated, after running aground off Quadra Island over the weekend.
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground.
to be immobilized by shallow water
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: засядам (bg) (zasjadam)
- Catalan: embarrancar (ca), encallar (ca), embancar (ca) (on a sandbank)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擱淺 / 搁浅 (zh) (gēqiǎn)
- Danish: strande
- Dutch: stranden (nl), vastlopen (nl)
- Esperanto: grundi
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: ajautua karille, kariutua
- French: échouer (fr)
- Galician: embarrancar (gl), encallar (gl), varar (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: auf Grund laufen, auflaufen (de)
- Greek: εξοκέλλω (el) (exokéllo)
- Hebrew: עָלַה עַל שִׂרְטוֹן (he) m (ala al sirton)
- Hungarian: zátonyra fut (hu), megfeneklik (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: incagliarsi (it), arenarsi
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 좌초되다 (jwachodoeda)
- Norman: couôrre à tèrre, êchouer
- Polish: osiadać na mieliźnie impf, osiąść na mieliźnie pf
- Portuguese: encalhar (pt)
- Russian: сади́ться на мель (sadítʹsja na melʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: nasukati se
- Spanish: encallar (es), varar (es), zabordar (es)
- Swedish: gå på grund, stranda (sv)
- Tagalog: sumadsad, sumagadsad
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: karaya oturmak (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: اوتورمق (oturmak)
- Vietnamese: mắc cạn (vi)
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to cause a vessel to run aground
