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Beached

//biːt͡ʃt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a beach. archaic, literary

    "Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;"

  2. 2
    Run or brought ashore

    "[…] Yet she glanced no thought At her own mermaid nakedness but gathering The long black serpents of beached seaweed wove Wreaths for old Jinny and crowned and wound her. […]"

  3. 3
    Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

    "a beached whale"

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of beach form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.

Etymology 2

See beach (verb)

Etymology 3

See beach (verb)

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