Definition of "beached" in English

adjective

1. (archaic, literary) Having a beach.

   • 1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63, Even now Jove shed the image of a bull, Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore On the beached mountainside of Crete,

verb

1. simple past and past participle of beach

adjective

1. Run or brought ashore

   • It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.

2. Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

   • a beached whale