stranded

About 2.71 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb simple past and past participle of strand
2. adjective Abandoned or marooned.
3. adjective Run aground on a shore or reef.
4. adjective Not having any expressed complement.
5. adjective Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
6. adjective 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. adjective Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
8. adjective Having the specified number or kind of strands.

   single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded

Similar words

aground isolated unaccompanied marooned beached stopped grounded insulated locked pinned

Often followed by

dna in on rna and at by or with

Word family

strandedness strandednesses