beached vs cast away

beached

adj
  • Run or brought ashore 

  • It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices. 

  • Stranded and helpless, especially on a beach 

cast away

verb
  • To abandon or maroon. 

  • To discard. 

  • To eliminate by means of a cast operation. 

How often have the words beached and cast away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )