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adjective

as in stranded
resting on the shore or bottom of a body of water the beached whale had to be helped back out to sea

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beached

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verb

past tense of beach
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as in moored

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as in wrecked

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Recent Examples of beached
Adjective
Despite these efforts, high tide came and went, and the whale remained beached. — Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026 Hundreds of sea turtles become beached or stranded every year from injury, disease, illness or environmental threats, the zoo says. — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025 The idea that someone could actually live in the studio — which from the outside looks a bit like a large beached Sausalito houseboat — was clarifying for actor Steven Lee Johnson, who plays audio engineer Charlie in the show. — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beached
  1. grounded
  2. moored
  3. wrecked
  4. tied up
  5. stranded
  6. shipwrecked
Adjective
  • Naomi Sharon Steps Into Her Spotlight If her emotional landscape feels more grounded now, her creative world is becoming more kinetic.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The Bucyrus Museum offers a clear, grounded reminder that America wasn’t built on vision alone.
    — Malika Bowling, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of grounded
Verb
  • Powering oil operations with wind turbine A tension-leg platform (TLP) is a buoyant, floating structure moored to the seafloor by taut, vertical steel cables.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
  • This week, according to public data, Breakthrough is moored off the Costa Smeralda in northeastern Sardinia, near Porto Cervo.
    — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
Definition of moored
Verb
  • The vessel eventually wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys in 1827, drowning 41 people.
    — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
  • Flash flooding in southeastern Missouri wrecked a campground and carried away about a dozen people, according to local authorities.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 10 July 2026
Definition of wrecked
Verb
  • Baldoni, via his Wayfarer Studios production company, and Lively later agreed to settle but remain tied up in a court fight over legal fees.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • While distribution for Being Heumann is already tied up with Apple through CODA director Heder’s overall deal with the platform, both Prima Facie and The Assassin(s) will be looking to tie up North American and international deals on the ground.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 July 2026
Definition of tied up
Verb
  • Kuwait, Iraq and Qatar retain heavy exposure to the waterway, while alternative pipelines cannot absorb all the crude and liquefied natural gas that would be stranded in a prolonged closure.
    — Lee Ying Shan,Sam Meredith, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • When an engine fire knocked out power and plumbing for five days, 4,000 passengers were stranded with overflowing sewage — including, yes, poop — spoiled food and unbearable heat.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Definition of stranded
Verb
  • Over Your Dead Body follows a married couple whose relationship is beyond shipwrecked.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
  • In 1543 several Portuguese were shipwrecked on the island of Tanega, off southern Kyushu.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of shipwrecked

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