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beached

adj · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /biːt͡ʃt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːtʃt
  • CMU ARPABET: B IY1 CH T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Having a beach.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, literary

Examples

  • 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,

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Run or brought ashore

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • a beached whale

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

simple past and past participle of beach

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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.

See beach (verb)

Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Hungarian: megfeneklett — run or brought ashore
  • Hungarian: partra húzott/vontatott — run or brought ashore
  • Hungarian: partra vetett — stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
  • Spanish: varado — stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
  • Swedish: strandad — stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
Real reading context

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