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beached

/biːt͡ʃt/

beached adjective: having a beach. Also the simple past and past participle of beach.

Adjective (1)

beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

  1. (archaic, literary) Having a beach.
    • Come not to me again: but say to Athens,
      Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
      Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Even now Jove shed the image of a bull,
      Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore
      On the beached mountainside of Crete,1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63

Adjective (2)

beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

  1. 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. […]1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 30
    • It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
  2. Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
    • a beached whale
    • There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103

Also used as

beached is also the simple past and past participle of beach.

Forms of beached

comparativemore beached
superlativemost beached

Origin of beached

From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.

See beach (verb)

Words formed from beached

Phrases with beached

Words that rhyme with beached

Questions about beached

What does beached mean?
Beached means having a beach.
What part of speech is beached?
Beached is an adjective.
How do you pronounce beached?
Beached is pronounced /biːt͡ʃt/.

Words near beached in the dictionary

  1. beachcomber
  2. beachcombers
  3. beachcombing
  4. beachcombings
  5. beachcombs
  6. beached
  7. beached whale
  8. beached whales
  9. Beachell
  10. Beachem
  11. Beachems

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