To land on a beach; (of animals) to become stranded out of the water.
1 There are far too many of them to be beached at once.
2 It is the sixth whale to be beached on the east coast this year.
3 Audi claims rivals would be beached in the same scenario.
4 Their flat bottoms allowed the ships to sail in shallow waters and be beached for cargo loading.
5 The boat was securely moored, it did not need to be beached when the water level was high.
6 He added that they were not more than six miles from the shore, and that the ship would be beached in half an hour.
7 That the vessel be beached on some remote coast, all the spoils aboard divided, and then the crew permitted to go where they please.
8 Do you think that a barge or a cutter is to be beached in the same manner you ground firelock, by word of command?
9 He declared that they were so foul with weeds and barnacles that, as a prelude to any further operations, they must be beached and cleaned.
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