BEACHED Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

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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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verb

past tense of beach

as in moored

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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

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But these opening works feel grounded and hopeful, at home in a way that imbibes them with a sense of light.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Maybe that hard-won self-belief is exactly what keeps her so grounded.

— Riann Phillip, Vogue, 15 July 2026

Definition of grounded

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By the time Noe and his sons were back home and had moored the boat to their wharf on the narrow pass that separated Cheniere Disparue from the mainland, the last low clouds of the front hung over the Gulf.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
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

Definition of moored

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Ellis also questioned whether the city’s push to extend six of its TADs is even legal if more than 10% of Atlanta’s tax base is currently tied up in the taxing districts.

— Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Almost all of Scott’s fortune is tied up in Amazon stock, and Amazon has been on a historic run.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 16 July 2026

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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

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