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                            Phrase(s): run aground (on something) 
[for a ship] to ram its hull into something beneath the water and get stuck.  •  The ship ran aground on a reef and had to wait for high tide to get free.  •  I was afraid we would run aground in the storm.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs