stranded

Verb

• leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
• drive (a vessel) ashore
• bring to the ground
• simple past and past participle of strand

Adjective Satellite

• cut off or left behind
  • "several stranded fish in a tide pool"

Adj

• 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.
• Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
• Having the specified number or kind of strands.

Examples

• single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
• With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

Synonyms

ground, isolated, maroon, marooned, run aground, strand

Related Words

strandable, stranding, unstrandable

Anagrams of stranded