beached
/biːt͡ʃt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.61 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of beach
adj
Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach
Example Sentences
- "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,"
- "[…] 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."
- "a beached whale"
- "There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two."
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more beached (comparative)
most beached (superlative)