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More words related to beach

reef
noun. underwater or partially submerged ledge
  • atoll
  • bank
  • bar
  • beach
  • cay
  • coral reef
  • ridge
  • rock
  • rock barrier
  • sand bar
  • shoal
  • skerry

shore
noun. waterside
  • bank
  • beach
  • border
  • brim
  • brink
  • coast
  • coastland
  • embankment
  • lakeshore
  • lakeside
  • littoral
  • margin
  • riverbank
  • riverside
  • sand
  • sands
  • seaboard
  • seacoast
  • seashore
  • shingle
  • strand
  • waterfront

wreck
verb. ruin, destroy
  • bash
  • batter
  • beach
  • break
  • capsize
  • crack up
  • crash
  • cripple
  • dash
  • decimate
  • demolish
  • devastate
  • dilapidate
  • disable
  • do in
  • efface
  • founder
  • impair
  • injure
  • mangle
  • mar
  • mess up
  • pile up
  • put out of commission
  • ravage
  • raze
  • run aground
  • sabotage
  • scuttle
  • shatter
  • shipwreck
  • sink
  • smash
  • smash up
  • spoil
  • strand
  • subvert
  • take apart
  • take out
  • tear up
  • torpedo
  • total
  • trash
  • undermine
  • vandalize
  • wrack
  • wrack up

sand trap
noun. golf course hazard
  • beach
  • sand green
  • sand hazard

mainland
noun. shore
  • beach
  • continent
  • dry land
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Word Origin & History

beach 1530s, probably from O.E. bæce, bece "stream," from P.Gmc. *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." Fr. grève shows the same evolution. The verb "to haul or run up on a beach" is first attested 1840. Beach bum first recorded 1962.

Example Sentences for beach

The sea is sleeping sapphire that wakes to cream and crash upon the beach.

They were left on the beach without any guard, or any one near them.

The children gathered round the curious object on the beach.

The children were lingering on the beach when Edward came that day.

There are no horses on this beach, and we cannot walk to Granada in our state.

Nelson, at the head of a few of his seamen, leaped upon the beach.

He was fortunate enough to find a boat on the beach, and got instantly to his ship.

Here the canoe was driven upon the beach, and the whole party landed.

Her disposition was more fully disclosed as they drew away from the beach.

Dr. Eben Williams clenched his hands as he paced up and down the beach.

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