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Definitions for Stranded
[1] composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
[2] to drive or leave (a ship, fish, etc.) aground or ashore: The receding tide stranded the whale.
[3] (usually used in the passive) to bring into or leave in a helpless position: He was stranded in the middle of nowhere.
[4] to be driven or left ashore; run aground.
[5] to be halted or struck by a difficult situation: He stranded in the middle of his speech.
[6] the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
[7] one of a number of fibers, threads, or yarns that are plaited or twisted together to form a rope, cord, or the like.
[8] a similar part of a wire rope.
[9] a rope made of such twisted or plaited fibers.
[10] a fiber or filament, as in animal or plant tissue.
[11] a thread or threadlike part of anything: the strands of a plot.
[12] a tress of hair.
[13] a string of pearls, beads, etc.
[14] to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
[15] to break one or more strands of (a rope).
[16] to leave or drive (ships, fish, etc) aground or ashore or (of ships, fish, etc) to be left or driven ashore
[17] (tr; usually passive) to leave helpless, as without transport or money, etc
[18] a shore or beach
[19] a foreign country
[20] a set of or one of the individual fibres or threads of string, wire, etc, that form a rope, cable, etc
[21] a single length of string, hair, wool, wire, etc
[22] a string of pearls or beads
[23] a constituent element in a complex whole one strand of her argument
[24] (tr) to form (a rope, cable, etc) by winding strands together
[25] the Strand a street in W central London, parallel to the Thames: famous for its hotels and theatres
Words related to Stranded
helpless, wrecked, aground, ashore, grounded, shipwrecked, sidetracked, godforsaken, homeless, penniless
Words nearby Stranded
stramineous, stramonium, strand, strand line, strand wolf, stranded, strandloper, strandwolf, strange, strange attractor, strange bedfellows
Origin of Stranded
2First recorded in 1490–1500; origin uncertain
Other words from Stranded
strand·ed·ness , noun
un·strand·ed , adjective
strand·less , adjective
Word origin for Stranded
C15: of uncertain origin
Synonyms for Stranded
aground, ashore, grounded, helpless, wrecked, beached, shipwrecked, sidelined, sidetracked, cast away, godforsaken, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground