Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a beach; bordered by a beach; formed by or consisting of a beach.
- Run on a beach; stranded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Bordered by a beach.
- past participle Driven on a beach; stranded; drawn up on a beach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
beach . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beach . - adjective
Run orbrought ashore - adjective
Stranded andhelpless , especially on a beach
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Duquesne Light and Power "beached" one of Admiral Hyman Rickover's 70-MW submarine reactors at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957, it became the nation's first commercial plant.
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He is crouching over as if he were inspecting some kind of beached specimen, his hair like a tuft of grass atop a windswept rock.
The Hook News Blog 2008
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The canoe landing was crowded with people sitting on the parallel ranks of beached canoes.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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The camp itself was essentially a series of huge tents decorated with an eye toward sumptuousness—overstuffed couches, a dinner table made from beached wood, a makeshift bar area—all atop raised, rich hardwood flooring.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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Ahead, the landing consisted of trampled soil, and perhaps ten canoes had already been beached and inverted to keep rain from pooling inside.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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I awkwardly rolled around on the table, feeling like I was a beached whale, until I was lying facedown.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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I awkwardly rolled around on the table, feeling like I was a beached whale, until I was lying facedown.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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The canoe landing was crowded with people sitting on the parallel ranks of beached canoes.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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"We were not very far from shore, so people were beached or stranded on some local islands."
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Ahead, the landing consisted of trampled soil, and perhaps ten canoes had already been beached and inverted to keep rain from pooling inside.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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