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ἐξοκέλλω , intr., of a ship,
A.run aground, “ἐς τὰς ἐκβολὰς τοῦ Πηνειοῦ” Hdt.7.182; “πρὸς κραταίλεων χθόνα” A.Ag.666; also [“δελφῖνες] ἐ. εἰς τὴν γῆν” Arist.HA631b2.
2. metaph., drift into, “ἐ. εἰς τραχύτερα πράγματα” Isoc.7.18; “εἰς λόγου μῆκος” Id.Ep.2.13; “εἰς ἀσέλγειαν” Plb. 18.55.7; “πρὸς ἀπληστίαν” Ph.1.686; “ἐς ἐπιθυμίας ἀνοήτους” Paus.8.24.9; “εἰς κύβους” Plu.2.5b; “εἰς ὕβριν” Phylarch.45 J.; εἰς τρυφήν ibid., Plb. 7.1.1, Ath.12.523c (= Arist.Fr.584); “μέχρι τῶν ἐσχάτων” Phld.Ir. p.35 W.: abs., to be ruined, Plb.4.48.11.
II. trans., run (a ship) aground: metaph., drive headlong, “τινὰ εἰς ἄτην” E.Tr.137 (lyr.); “ὁ πλοῦτος ἐξώκειλε τὸν κεκτημένον εἰς ἕτερον ἦθος” Men.587:—Pass., metaph., δεῦρο δ᾽ ἐξοκέλλεται things are coming to this pass, A.Supp. 438.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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