Beached

//biːt͡ʃt// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
agroundgroundedstranded

Example

More examples

"In strandings involving multiple deaths, autopsies reveal that the vast majority of the deceased animals were healthy before they beached."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.

Etymology 2

See beach (verb)

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beached whale

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