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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore.
  2. adv. On the ground: combat aircraft aloft and aground.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. On the ground; stranded: a nautical term signifying that the bottom of a ship rests on the ground for want of sufficient depth of water: opposed to afloat.
  2. Figuratively, brought to a stop for want of resources, matter, and the like: as, the speaker is aground.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. nautical Resting on the bottom. (refers only to floating craft).
  2. adj. obsolete, slang Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined; like a boat or vessel aground.
  3. adv. nautical Resting on the bottom. (refers only to floating craft).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. with the bottom lodged on the ground
  2. adj. stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English agrounde, on grounde ("on ground"), equivalent to a- +‎ ground. (Wiktionary)

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