beached

• IPA^(key): /biːt͡ʃt/

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• Rhymes: -iːtʃt

From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.

beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

1. (archaic, literary) Having a beach.
   • 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

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

   • 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,

See beach (verb)

beached

1. simple past and past participle of beach

beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

1. Run or brought ashore
   • 1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers‎^[1], Random House, published 1937, page 30:

     […] 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. […]

   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

   • 1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103:

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

   • 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 109:

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

• beached whale (figurative)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛaʔəð/

beached

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