Pronunciations
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/ˈstɹændɪd/
Adjective
Abandoned or marooned.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a person
- Examples
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I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…]
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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.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a vessel
Not having any expressed complement.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a word or phrase that can take a complement
Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
Usage- not-comparable
- of a piece of wire
That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
Usage- not-comparable
- of expenses or costs
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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.
Usage- not-comparable
Having the specified number or kind of strands.
Usage- In compounds
- not-comparable
- Examples
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single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
Adjective
cut off or left behind
- Examples
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an isolated pawn
several stranded fish in a tide pool
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travelers marooned by the blizzard