run aground

VERB
  1. hit or reach the ground
  2. bring to the ground
    the storm grounded the ship
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  • This is, as far as I can see, basic Tome of Leo and Third Constantinople; and what Kvanvig keeps calling the traditional view seems very clearly run aground in the same way Monotheletism did - the natures are distinguished but only in order to be confused. Of Interest
  • Over three days I managed to run aground twice, slam into a bridge and bump too many other boats to remember. The Sun
  • UPDATE: SO, I am told by doctor that I have, in all likelihood, a post-viral infection, brought on and perpetuated by being consistently run aground by the Great Yellow Budgerigar, which, although flightless, is a fast-moving and demanding creature. And I don’t watch ER, either | Her Bad Mother
  • Three ships have run aground in the Arctic this year alone because of the lack of survey data. Times, Sunday Times
  • A disabled traveller whose boat has run aground at Linton Lock, near York, may have to wait for heavy rain before it is refloated.
  • There had been a storm, though, I think, and the ship had run aground on an island ruled by some sort of nasty feudal overlord.
  • Certainly it is known that in 1901 he was based in Hong Kong and he refloated the steamship München which had run aground on Yap, Caroline Islands.
  • A ship carrying a cargo of oil has run aground.
  • ROME -- The Italian coast guard says a luxury cruise ship has run aground off the coast of Tuscany and that at least three bodies have been retrieved from the sea. Costa Concordia Luxury Cruise Ship Runs Aground Off Coast Of Tuscany, At Least 3 Bodies Retrieved From Sea
  • Moreover, before steam made coast traffic independent of wind, the sand-banks outside the roads were a great source of profit to the beach men, who went off in their long yawls to such craft as "missed stays" coming through a "gat," or managed to run aground on one of the sand-banks in some way or other. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"
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