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adjective

Definition of beachednext
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 Synonyms for beached
  1. moored
  2. wrecked
  3. landed
  4. grounded
  5. stranded
Verb
  • He was assigned to the USS Oklahoma, a battleship moored at Pearl Harbor, in 1941.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2024
  • As Russian sailors dove for cover, one of the Aeroprakt A-22s—apparently operated by the Ukrainian intelligence directorate—plowed into a clutch of warships moored side-by-side along a pier.
    David Axe, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of moored
Verb
  • Notre Dame, located by the River Seine in Paris, was wrecked by the blaze on April 15, 2019.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The cathedral by the River Seine in Paris, was wrecked by the blaze on April, 15, 2019.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of wrecked
Adjective
  • Paying the right tariffs is necessary to avoid government fines and calculate the true landed cost of products.
    Steve Banker, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
  • As Industry expands its scope outside the trading floor and into the halls of power—involving government officials, media moguls, and members of Britain’s landed gentry—the stakes are about more than just money.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
Definition of landed
Verb
  • Members of a county rescue team and regional task force joined the Coast Guard in its search for the missing hiker over the weekend, but their efforts were temporarily stalled by challenging weather that grounded the flight crew.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In the first hours of the Mountain fire last month, winds kept most aircraft grounded longer, though helicopters were still able to help, said Ventura County Fire spokesperson Andrew Dowd.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of grounded
Verb
  • Frostbite and Hypothermia Duda fled his home in Ukraine's Kharkiv region more than a week before becoming stranded.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The first time anyone saw the whale in the flesh was in 2010, when a mother and calf were stranded in the Bay of Plenty on New Zealand’s North Island, but the carcasses weren’t suitable for dissection.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
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