beached

Having a beach.archaicliterary

• 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,

simple past and past participle of beachform-ofparticiplepast

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.

Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach

• a beached whale