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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Recent Examples of 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.
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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.
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Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Nov. 2025
Adjective
Despite these efforts, high tide came and went, and the whale remained beached.
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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
Adjective
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Marriages among the landed and propertied involved legally binding settlements drawn up by lawyers (with no obligation to confidentiality).
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Elordi plays Heathcliff, the romantic anti-hero who is discovered on the streets before being taken in by a wealthy member of Britain’s landed gentry, only to fall in love with their daughter.
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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.
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This week, according to public data, Breakthrough is moored off the Costa Smeralda in northeastern Sardinia, near Porto Cervo.
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In the history of mankind, socialist success stories are as rare as triple plays in baseball, but plenty of countries have been wrecked by it — Venezuela and Cuba, to name just two.
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My polishing pads are always getting wrecked, used, or stolen by my dog (or all of those things).
Adjective
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Blending philosophy, science, and grounded insight, Making Sense of Life explores how people form beliefs, respond to challenges, and refine their perspectives over time.
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Throughout Paris, collections appeared more grounded, sophisticated and wardrobe-oriented.
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If city agencies coordinated security, traffic planning or other logistics for an event that never took place there, critics could question whether public resources were unnecessarily tied up during one of New York's busiest holiday weekends.
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Germany 0, Paraguay 0 Germany and Paraguay are all tied up after 120-plus minutes of action and are headed to a penalty shootout.
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In the fourth inning, the Royals left outfielder Lane Thomas stranded on third.
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The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began.
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Over Your Dead Body follows a married couple whose relationship is beyond shipwrecked.
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In 1543 several Portuguese were shipwrecked on the island of Tanega, off southern Kyushu.
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“Beached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beached. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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