stranded
adjective
- to leave stranded, left high and dry
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English strand English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
- Abandoned or marooned.
“I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…]”
“The 9.17 a.m. diesel train from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen, Scottish Region, was blocked by a snow drift just north of Newmachar Station on January 19. The 57 passengers were stranded for 15 hours.”
- Run aground on a shore or reef.
- Not having any expressed complement.
- Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
- That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
“With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.”
- Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
- Having the specified number or kind of strands.
“single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English strand English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of strand