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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It seemed to the prisoner that he could distinguish a feminine form on the beach, for it was there Mercédès dwelt.
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.”
But when Anne had gone Diana dried her tears and went to a beach picnic at White Sands with some of her Carmody cousins, where she contrived to enjoy herself tolerably well; while Marilla plunged fiercely into unnecessary work and kept at it all day long with the bitterest kind of heartache--the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.
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