run aground

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

run aground
    v 1: bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship" [syn:
         {ground}, {strand}, {run aground}]
    2: hit or reach the ground [syn: {ground}, {run aground}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "run aground":
      be clobbered, be felled, be poleaxed, be staggered, be stricken,
      beach, cast away, come to grief, drown, founder, ground,
      have a mishap, pile up, shipwreck, sink, strand,
      suffer a misfortune, take the ground, wreck

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