Beached

/biːt͡ʃt/ · adjective

Meaning

(archaic, literary) Having a beach..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, literary) Having a beach.
2. simple past and past participle of beach
3. Run or brought ashore
4. Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

Example Sentences

1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63, Even now Jove shed the image of a bull, Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore On the beached mountainside of Crete,

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

It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.

[…] 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. […]

a beached whale

There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.

Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.

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• more beached
• most beached

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