beached

beached

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːt͡ʃt/
• Rhymes: -iːtʃt

Etymology 1

beach (“sandy shore”) +‎ -ed

Adjective

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 606515358, [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

See beach (verb)

Verb

beached

1. simple past tense and past participle of beach

Adjective

beached (comparative more beached, superlative most beached)

1. Run or brought ashore
   • 1924, Robinson Jeffers, Tamar in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, 1937, p. 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, 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, p. 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.

Translations

run or brought ashore

Hungarian: megfeneklett, partra húzott/vontatott

stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

Hungarian: partra vetett Spanish: varado (es) Swedish: strandad

Derived terms

• beached whale (figurative)

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Palauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛaʔəð/

Noun

beached

1. tin