run aground

Questions about run aground

What does run aground mean?

run aground means "bring to the ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for run aground?

Close synonyms include ground, strand, ground. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is run aground a common word?

run aground is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for run aground come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.