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Aground vs Stranded - What's the difference?

aground | stranded |

As adjectives the difference between aground and stranded

is that aground is resting on the bottom while stranded is abandoned or marooned.

As an adverb aground

is resting on the bottom.

As a verb stranded is

past tense of strand.

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

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    stranded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (strand)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a person) abandoned or marooned.
  • (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
  • (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
  • expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
  • * With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

    • References

    * FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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