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Aground vs Beached - What's the difference?

aground | beached | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between aground and beached

is that aground is resting on the bottom while beached is having a beach.

As an adverb aground

is resting on the bottom.

As a verb beached is

past tense of beach.

aground

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.
  • Stuck fast, stopped, at a loss, ruined, like a boat that has run aground.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (nautical, of a normally floating craft) Resting on the bottom.

    • See also

    * ashore

    Anagrams

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    beached

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a beach.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • The beached verge of the salt flood.

    Etymology 2

    See (beach) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (beach)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Run or brought ashore
    • It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
  • Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
    • a beached whale
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