aground
Stuck on bottom
Aground describes a boat or ship stuck on the bottom in shallow water, unable to move: The tanker ran aground on a sandbar.
The word combines the prefix a- (meaning "on" or "in a state of") with ground.
Figuratively, plans or projects that run aground have stalled or failed.
Stuck on land
- maroonedLeft stranded and helpless
- shipwreckedStranded by maritime disaster
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
- strandedLeft without means to leave
abandoned · deserted · isolated · stuck · trapped · helpless · adrift · derelict
beached
Stuck on land
- maroonedLeft stranded and helpless
- shipwreckedStranded by maritime disaster
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
stranded · abandoned · deserted · isolated · stuck · trapped · helpless · adrift · derelict · forlorn
shoal
Shallow water hazard
- sandbarUnderwater ridge of sediment
- reefUnderwater rock or coral formation
- shallowsAreas of little depth
hull · keel · seafloor · silt · navigation · stern · bow · vessel · tidal · channel
stuck
Unable to move
- fixedRestored or immovable
- stationaryNot in motion
- motionlessLacking all movement
halted · stalled · immovable · lodged · wedged · anchored · rooted · inert · paralyzed · frozen
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- sailingsailboat, sailing, sails, sailboats, catamaran
- shipwrecksshipwreck, shipwrecks, sunken ships, capsized, derelict
- abandonedabandoned, abandoned building, abandoned factory, abandoned hospital, abandoned mine
- A- wordsamoral, apathy, atheist, atypical, asymmetric
- run agroundBecome lodged on seafloor
- ran agroundStruck bottom, immobilized
- running agroundBoat lodging on bottom
ground, background, underground, grounded, groundwork, grounding, groundless, aboveground, groundlessly