stranded

From strand + -ed.

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stranded

1. simple past and past participle of strand

stranded (not comparable)

1. (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
   • 1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Bathurst:

     I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front […]

   • 1960 March, “Notes and News: Diesel Train Stranded in Snow Drift”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:

     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. (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
4. (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Not having any expressed complement.
5. (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
6. (of expenses or costs) 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.

7. (cricket) Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
8. (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.

   single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded

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