Aground

English

Adjective

Aground (not comparable)

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

Adverb

Aground (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Resting on the bottom. (refers only to floating craft).

Thesaurus

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

Translations

resting on the bottom

Bulgarian: заседнал (bg) Finnish: karilla (being aground), karille (running aground) Macedonian: потонат (mk) (pótonat) m., заринкан (mk) (zárinkan) m.

Spanish: encallado (es), varado (es)

See also

• ashore

Anagrams

• Durango, on guard