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stranded

adjective

  1. to leave stranded, left high and dry
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English strand English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.

  1. 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.”

  2. Run aground on a shore or reef.
  3. Not having any expressed complement.
  4. Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
  5. 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.”

  6. Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
  7. 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.

  1. simple past and past participle of strand