0 If a boat or ship is aground, it is unable to move because it is touching ground or in a place where there is very little water. -- （船只）搁浅（的）
But, first, the river had to be ascended, with a constant danger of going aground.
More generally, the explanatory efforts ran aground on their selective identification of the effects of tort law in identifying its point or purpose.
But when the ship backed off the beach at 2000 hr, she swung and went aground broadside to the beach.
She ran aground in 1916 and was abandoned.
For a number of them this was not a happy situation, and it created difficulties on which more than a few ran aground.
For the theist, petitionary prayer ran aground on what we might call the paradox of perfection.
Rather, their enterprise, like that of the other sciences, runs aground on the shoals of epistemology.
Secondly, running ships aground for on-site dismantling must be regarded as unacceptable.
