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Meanings of aground in English

Catalan
encallat
Spanish
encallado

Stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float.

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encallat
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Examples for "afloat"
Examples for "afloat"
1
Both changed the services they offered to stay afloat during the crisis.
Reuters
2
That matters, because the periphery governments need Germany's support to stay afloat.
Reuters
3
The inflow of foreign funds would help keep the local currency afloat.
Reuters
4
Businesses will need a lot of support to recover and stay afloat.
Jamaica Observer
5
The second ship was still afloat, but listing badly to the right.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
1
Good tidings; no weather catastrophes; no wind-trashed hospitality areas or sunken greens.
The Irish Times
2
China has avoided taking sides in the issue of the sunken ship.
Reuters
3
The first thing they saw was a sunken tank in the floor.
The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
4
The eyes, sunken in their sockets, were red and terrible to see.
The Sky Line of Spruce
5
On the opposite side of the handle were the sunken letters S.
The Strong Arm
Usage of aground in English
1
The Exxon Valdez is seen three days after the vessel ran aground.
Reuters
2
Looks like you had run aground in the middle of the bay.
Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast
3
He had nevertheless run one of them aground and taken the other.
Man of War
4
In one two-day period, the Libelula ran aground more than 20 times.
Wired
5
Brexit is the rock on which our democratic system has run aground.
The Guardian
6
A tanker had run aground and the slick was heading our way.
The Guardian
7
The pilot made the land at Nizir and let her go aground.
A Dweller in Mesopotamia / Being the Adventures of an Official A...
8
It ran aground because he failed to do his duty, Geren said.
Reuters
9
A shallow break where Jean Laffitte might run a Spanish ship aground.
Rebel island
10
Some were afraid they would run aground on the shore of Spain.
The confusion
11
The first thing that they noticed was, that the schooner was aground.
Lost in the Fog
12
The coastguard says some boats are damaged and some have run aground.
BBC
13
Unhappily it got aground, and all on board of it were captured.
Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East
14
The only thing he could do was to run his ships aground.
Christopher Columbus
15
Here he had the misfortune to run his big vessel hopelessly aground.
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
16
The all-important Ausgleich remained hard aground, and could not be sparred off.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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Aground through the time
Aground across language varieties
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