beach
verb/biːtʃ/
/biːtʃ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they beach | /biːtʃ/ /biːtʃ/ |
| he / she / it beaches | /ˈbiːtʃɪz/ /ˈbiːtʃɪz/ |
| past simple beached | /biːtʃt/ /biːtʃt/ |
| past participle beached | /biːtʃt/ /biːtʃt/ |
| -ing form beaching | /ˈbiːtʃɪŋ/ /ˈbiːtʃɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] beach something to bring a boat out of the water and onto a beach
- He beached the boat and lifted the boy onto the shore.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBeach is used with these nouns as the object:- boat
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- (also be beached)[intransitive, transitive] (of a whale or similar animal) to become stuck on land and unable to get back into the water
- a beached whale
- We don't know what causes whales to beach.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting shingle on the seashore): perhaps related to Old English bæce, bece ‘brook’ (an element that survives in place names such as Wisbech and Sandbach), assuming an intermediate sense ‘pebbly river valley’.
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