Beached
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /biːt͡ʃt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Beached is an adjective meaning simple past and past participle of beach.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of beach.
More Meanings
- Run or brought ashore
- Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
- (archaic, literary) Having a beach.
Example Sentences
a beached whale
There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.
Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aground, stranded, onshore, grounded, failed, whale.
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