islanded
SayY-luhn-did/ˈaɪləndɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of island.
The storm islanded several farms when the only road washed out.
Stranded passengers found themselves islanded at the airport overnight.
Note
A regular -ed form of a verb that always takes an object, so the participle often turns up in the passive or before a noun: farms islanded by a flood, a bay islanded with rocks. One spelling serves three uses. It can mean literally cut off by water, dotted with islands, or simply isolated, as with travelers islanded at an airport overnight.
islanded is a form of island
island, verb: To cut off or isolate a place or person from others, for example by surrounding land with water. Full entry
- Spelling
- island → islanded: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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