beached

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːt͡ʃt/

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• Rhymes: -iːtʃt

Etymology 1

From beach (“sandy shore”) +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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,

Etymology 2

See beach (verb)

Verb

beached

1. simple past 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, 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.

Translations

run or brought ashore

Hungarian: megfeneklett (hu), partra húzott/vontatott

stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

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

Derived terms

• beached whale (figurative)

Palauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛaʔəð/

Noun

beached

1. tin