| agroun | Multilateral trade negotiations ran aground over import quotas. |
| aground | (adj) stuck in a place where a ship can no longer float, Ant. afloat, Example: a ship aground offshore; a boat aground on the beach waiting for the tide to lift it |
| aground | (adv) with the bottom lodged on the ground, Example: he ran the ship aground |
| Aground | adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + ground. ] On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ] |