beached

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Etymology 1

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From beach (sandy shore) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

  1. (archaic, literary) Having a beach.
    • c. 1605–1608, 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,

Etymology 2

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See beach (verb)

Verb

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beached

  1. simple past and past participle of beach

Adjective

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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.
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Palauan

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beached

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