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beached¹

  • /biːt͡ʃt/

Rhymes with -iːtʃt

adjective more beached · most beached

  1. 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;

beached²

  • /biːt͡ʃt/

Rhymes with -iːtʃt

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See beach (verb)

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of beach

adjective more beached · most beached

  1. 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. […]
  2. Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach a beached whale

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adj stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

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@misc{beached_2026,
  title = {beached},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beached},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}