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STRANDED
isolated, marooned, stranded
(adjective) cut off or left behind; “an isolated pawn”; “several stranded fish in a tide pool”; “travelers marooned by the blizzard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
stranded
simple past tense and past participle of strand
Adjective
stranded
(of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
(nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
(of expenses or costs) 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.
(in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
Anagrams
• darndest
Source: Wiktionary
STRAND
Strand, n. Etym: [Probably fr. D. streen a skein; akin to G. strähne a skein, lock of hair, strand of a rope.]
Definition: One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Strand, v. t.
Definition: To break a strand of (a rope).
Strand, n. Etym: [AS. strand; akin to D., G., Sw., & Dan. strand, Icel. strönd.]
Definition: The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore.
– Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover.
– Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.
Strand, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding.]
Definition: To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
Strand, v. i.
Definition: To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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