beached
adjective
[ biːtʃt ]
• hauled up or stranded on a beach.
• "a beached whale"
beach
verb
• run or haul up (a boat or ship) on to a beach.
• "at the water's edge a rowing boat was beached"
Similar:
land,
reach the shore,
run ashore,
ground,
be grounded,
run aground,
shipwreck,
wreck,
run on the rocks,
be high and dry,
Origin:
mid 16th century (denoting shingle on the seashore): perhaps related to Old English bæce, bece ‘brook’ (an element that survives in place names such as Wis bech and Sand bach ), assuming an intermediate sense ‘pebbly river valley’.
