How to pronounce“beach”in English
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Definitions of “beach”
The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
“Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.”
A horizontal strip of land, usually sandy, adjoining water.
“Up and down, the beach lay empty for miles.”
To run aground on a beach.
“When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea.”
To run (something) aground on a beach.
“It seems that some honest mariners of Dover, or Sandwich, or some one of the Cinque Ports, had after a hard chase succeeded in killing and beaching a fine whale which they had originally descried afar off from the shore.”