stranded

Abandoned or marooned.

Adjective

  1. Abandoned or marooned.
    • I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…] - 1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Bathurst:
    • 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. - 1960 March 5, “Notes...
  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

Origin

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

Related

strandable stranding unstrandable

Derived

bistranded intrastranded multistranded strandedness

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of strand