Crossword-Solution: AGROUND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aground | adv. & a. | On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AGROUND | anagram | DURANGO, ONGUARD, RAGUDON |
We have 32 clues for the answer “AGROUND”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Bad way for a ship to be run | 1 answer |
| Stuck, shipwise | 1 answer |
| Where the Big Mo went. | 1 answer |
| Stranded, as a ship | 1 answer |
| SHALLOW water, on the bottom of | 1 answer |
| Wrong way to run | 1 answer |
| with the bottom lodged on the ground | 1 answer |
| Of ships, touching the bottom in shallow water | 1 answer |
| Wrong way to run a ship? | 1 answer |
| Not floating | 1 answer |
| Dragging on the shore | 1 answer |
| Beached, as a ship | 1 answer |
| Beached, as a boat in sand | 1 answer |
| Bad way to run a yacht? | 1 answer |
| Bad way to run a ship | 1 answer |
| Bad way to run a boat | 1 answer |
| Bad way for a vessel to run | 1 answer |
| onto the bottom of shallow water | 1 answer |
| No longer sailing | 2 answers |
| Not a good way to run | 2 answers |
| Not afloat. | 2 answers |
| On the shore | 2 answers |
| Stranded, perhaps | 2 answers |
| Not sailing | 3 answers |
| on the bottom | 4 answers |
| Stranded, in a way | 5 answers |
| On the rocks | 5 answers |
| Bad way to run | 6 answers |
| On the beach | 8 answers |
| beached | 8 answers |
| stranded | 12 answers |
| high and dry | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AGROUND (5)
Where’d she get aground?” I didn’t rightly know what to say, because I didn’t know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down.
The Lascar pretended that six years before, during a stay at Vanikoro, he had seen two Europeans that belonged to some vessels that had run aground on the reefs some years ago.
The 'spars,' and sometimes even their supporting derricks, were sent ashore, and no means left to set the boat afloat in case she got aground.
There were stagnant ponds in the streets, here and there, and a dozen rude scows were scattered about, lying aground wherever they happened to have been when the waters drained off and people could do their visiting and shopping on foot once more.
Then that launch would give one final shriek of a whistle that would nearly burst the boiler, and she would reverse her engines, and blow off steam, and swing round and get aground; everyone on board of it would rush to the bow and yell at us, and the people on the bank would stand and shout to us, and all the other passing boats would stop and join in, till the whole river for miles up and down was in a state of frantic commotion.
Quotes with AGROUND (3)
Love by the sweat of thy brow. Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne’er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as p…
Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow. And tonight, after crying until I am empty, I have a rare glimpse of my own interior landscape - wounds piled like tiny skeletons into the reef of conscious adult life. I am aground amid my conquered traumas, stranded as a consequence of my achievements.
Like a great ship, this season has run aground. Dawn and dusk alternate at an old man's pace. I live alone in an area known as the 'Waterside', writing a book akin to the Revelations of St. John.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).