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say it: uh-GROWND
aground is an adjective and adverb meaning "stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float". It is pronounced /əˈɡɹaʊnd/ — uh-GROWND. It carries 2 recorded senses.
stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float
“a ship aground offshore”
“a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it”
with the bottom lodged on the ground
“he ran the ship aground”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aground come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.