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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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • France Under-21 international Jacquet, who arrived in a £60million ($81m at current exchange rates) move from French club Rennes, is fit to feature after recovering from the shoulder injury which wrecked the second half of last season for him.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • But in recent history, the Spanish national soccer team has repeatedly wrecked the plans of dreamers and screenwriters.
    — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
Definition of wrecked
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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
Definition of tied up
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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
Definition of stranded
Verb
  • They are subsequently shipwrecked, with Odysseus left as the sole survivor on the shores of Calypso’s island.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
  • Over Your Dead Body follows a married couple whose relationship is beyond shipwrecked.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
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