beached
Run or brought ashore
Adjective
- Run or brought ashore
- […] 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. […] - 1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The...
- 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
- a beached whale
- There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two. - 1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103:
- Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed. - 1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page...
Origin
See beach (verb)
Forms
Derived
Adjective archaic, literary
- Having a beach.
- Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood; - c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr....
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach English -ed English beached From beach (“sandy shore”) + -ed.
Forms
Verb
- simple past and past participle of beach