stranded.
Abandoned or marooned.
Meaning & usage
Abandoned or marooned.
Run aground on a shore or reef.
Not having any expressed complement.
Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
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.
Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
Having the specified number or kind of strands.
single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English strand Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
simple past and past participle of strand
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English strand Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English stranded From strand + -ed.
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