beached

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1. archaicliteraryHaving a beach.

   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,

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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;

   c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of beach

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1. Run or brought ashore

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

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   […] 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. […]

   1924, Robinson Jeffers, “Tamar”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Random House, published 1937, page 30

2. Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

   a beached whale

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   There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.

   1970, Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour, Penguin, published 1973, Part Two, p. 103

   Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.

   1978, Edmund White, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, New York: St. Martin's Press, page 109