Pronunciations
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/biːt͡ʃt/
Adjective
Having a beach.
Usage- Archaic
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Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
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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,
Adjective
Run or brought ashore
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[…] 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.
Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
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a beached whale
There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.
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Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.