beach
/biːt͡ʃ/ verb C2- To run aground on a beach.
- To run (something) aground on a beach.
- To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction.
He/she/it beaches · Past beached · Past participle beached · -ing form beaching
Verb forms
- Base form
- beach
- He/she/it
- beaches
- Past
- beached
- Past participle
- beached
- -ing form
- beaching
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There for some time he enjoyed the fresh breeze which played on his brow, and listened to the dash of the waves on the beach, that left against the rocks a lace of foam as white as silver.
All the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen “fruits of the sea.”
When however it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a large faggot of sticks, and one of them said to his companions, “We have waited for no purpose, for after all there is nothing to see but a load of wood.”
It seemed to the prisoner that he could distinguish a feminine form on the beach, for it was there Mercédès dwelt.
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