beached

adjgrounded

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adj grounded

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at sea

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Word Origin & History

1530s, "loose, water-worn pebbles of the seashore," probably from Old English bæce, bece "stream," from Proto-Germanic *bakiz. Extended to loose, pebbly shores (1590s), and in dialect around Sussex and Kent beach still has the meaning "pebbles worn by the waves." French grève shows the same evolution. Beach ball first recorded 1940; beach bum first recorded 1950.

Example Sentences for beached

Granger stepped out and beached his craft above the water's edge.

When we beached I sprang ashore and ran up the sand to the edge of green.

It beached, and the jabiru heard a sudden dense silence fall.

"On the river bank, where the canoe the men came in was beached," was the reply.

I followed him to a little backwater, where was beached a rowboat.

It was easier to come back, for they beached the boat on the sand.

She beached her boat and found her way up to the top of the rock.

As he looked, the punt struck a submerged sandbank and beached on it.

The Undine, outfought by two Yankee gunboats, was beached and set afire.

And once beached,” I inquired, “how shall we get her off again?

beached

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aground

ashore

stranded

beached

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ashore

stranded

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aground