beach
🇺🇸
/biːtʃ/
🇬🇧
/biːtʃ/
noun
A1
A sandy area by the sea or a lake.
We love to play on the beach and build sandcastles.
verb
R
To pull a boat onto land from water.
They beached the small boat on the sandy shore.
R
To get stuck on land and cannot return to water.
Sometimes whales beach themselves and need help to get back to the ocean.
translation
A sandy area by the sea or a lake.
To pull a boat onto land from water.; To get stuck on land and cannot return to water.
Word Forms
Plural
beaches
Progressive
beaching
Past
beached
Perfect
beached
3rd Present
beaches