run aground (third-person singular simple present runs aground, present participle running aground, simple past ran aground, past participle run aground)
- (intransitive, of 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 be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
The drunken helmsman ran the ship aground.
to be immobilized by shallow water
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: засядам (bg) (zasjadam)
- Catalan: embarrancar (ca), encallar (ca), embancar (ca) (on a sandbank)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擱淺／搁浅 (zh) (gēqiǎn)
- Danish: strande
- Dutch: stranden (nl), vastlopen (nl)
- Esperanto: grundi
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: ajautua karille, kariutua
- French: échouer (fr)
- Galician: embarrancar (gl), encallar (gl), varar (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: auf Grund laufen, auflaufen (de)
- Greek: εξοκέλλω (el) (exokéllo)
- Hebrew: עָלַה עַל שִׂרְטוֹן (he) m (ala al sirton)
- Hungarian: zátonyra fut (hu), megfeneklik (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: incagliarsi (it), arenarsi
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 좌초되다 (jwachodoeda)
- Norman: couôrre à tèrre, êchouer
- Portuguese: encalhar (pt)
- Russian: сади́ться на мель (sadítʹsja na melʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: nasukati se
- Spanish: encallar (es), varar (es), zabordar (es)
- Swedish: gå på grund, stranda (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: karaya oturmak (tr)
- Vietnamese: mắc cạn (vi)
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to cause a vessel to run aground
