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Run aground
Verb
Definitions
1.
Verb
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."
2.
Verb
To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
"The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground."
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