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beached
/biːt͡ʃt/
adj 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
black, healthy, next
VERB + BEACHED
saw, say, scores, seen
BEACHED + NOUN
australian, capesterre, odysseus, seaweed, verge, whale, whales, wreaths
PREP.
in, on, upon
Definitions
adj
1
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;
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,
adj
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. […]
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
There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.
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Come not to me again: but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
Wiktionary02
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
Wiktionary03
[…] 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. […]
Wiktionary04
It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.
Wiktionary05
a beached whale
Wiktionary06
In strandings involving multiple deaths, autopsies reveal that the vast majority of the deceased animals were healthy before they beached.
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