Stranded
Stranded adjective - Resting on the shore or bottom of a body of water.
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Washed ashore and stranded are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Washed ashore" instead an adjective "Stranded".
Washed ashore
Stranded and washed ashore are semantically related. You can use "Stranded" instead an adjective phrase "Washed ashore".
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One of the oft-cited "absurdities" of George Miller's Happy Feet is that the main character somehow ends up far out his region, washed ashore and stranded.
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The screenwriter took the idea from of his own experience, when he stranded himself for a week as research and began chatting with a volleyball that washed ashore.
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In Cast Away, the stranded Tom Hanks finds a Wilson volleyball and draws a face on it to give himself a companion, which he calls "Wilson." The ball was inspired by the screenwriter's experience stranding himself on a beach and discovering a volleyball that washed ashore.
Source: Companion Cube
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