beached

adj

1. (archaic, literary)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,”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

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

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of beach