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aground Definition


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aground
adj, adverb
    1. Said of ships: stuck on the bottom of the sea or rocks, usually in shallow water.
      Thesaurus: grounded, ashore, beached, high and dry, foundered, marooned, stranded; Antonym: afloat.
Etymology: 16c in this sense; 13c in obsolete sense ‘on the ground'.



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