run aground
English
Verb
run aground (third-person singular simple present runs aground, present participle running aground, simple past ran aground, past participle run aground)
- (intransitive) For 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.
- (transitive) To cause a vessel to run aground.
- The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground.
Translations
to be immobilized by shallow water
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