# stranded

Pronunciation: say "STRAND-id" /ˈstɹændɪd/

## Adjective

1. Abandoned or left marooned somewhere, with no available means of getting away.
   - Simple: Left in a place with no way to leave or get help.
   - _Hundreds of passengers were stranded overnight when the ferry service was suspended._
   - _The expedition found itself stranded on the ice when the supply plane failed to return._
3. Made by combining or bundling thinner wires together into a single strand.
   - Simple: Made from many thin wires twisted or bundled together into one.
   - _Stranded cable is preferred in robotics, where the wires flex constantly._
   - _The technician replaced the brittle solid wire with a stranded version._
4. Run aground on a shore or reef, so that a vessel can no longer float free.
   - Simple: Stuck on rocks or sand in shallow water, so a boat cannot float free.
   - _At low tide, the old barge was left stranded on the mudflats._
   - _The yacht ran onto the sandbar and remained stranded until morning._
5. Having the specified number or kind of strands, as named by a preceding term.
   - Simple: Made up of a set number or kind of strands, as in a three-stranded rope.
   - _Viral genomes may be single-stranded or double-stranded._
   - _Traditional climbing ropes were three-stranded before modern braided designs appeared._
6. Having become impossible or difficult to recover or return to useful service.
   - Simple: Left in a state where it can no longer be used or got back.
   - _Analysts warned that aging power plants could become stranded assets._
   - _The investment was effectively stranded once the new rules took effect._
7. Left without an expressed complement, as a preposition separated from the noun phrase it governs.
   - Simple: Left without the word that would normally follow it, like 'with' in 'Who are you going with?'
   - _English readily allows a preposition to be stranded, as in 'the house she grew up in.'_
   - _The preposition 'for' is stranded in the sentence 'That's the thing I was waiting for.'_
8. Left narrowly short of a century or similar batting milestone because the team's innings ended.
   - Simple: Left just short of a big batting score because the team's turn at bat ended.
   - _The opener was left stranded on 96 not out after the tail collapsed._
   - _Rain ended play with the captain stranded two runs shy of a century._

## Verb

2. Simple past and past participle of strand. — simple past and past participle of strand
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of strand. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The sudden blizzard stranded dozens of motorists along the interstate._
   - _Engine failure stranded the ferry in the middle of the channel._

## Origin

Formed from "strand" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/stranded (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).