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stranded

[ stran-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

left helpless or without transport:
Officials said many people remained stranded even though floodwaters were receding.
Synonyms: abandoned, left in the lurch, forsaken, deserted

stranded

[ stran-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination):
a five-stranded rope.

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First recorded in 1700–10 in its literal sense “run or driven ashore,” and in its figurative sense in 1850–55; strand ¹( def ) + -ed ²( def )

First recorded in 1805–15; strand ² + -ed ³

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The Italian navy tweeted regular updates of the saved-to-stranded passenger ratio.

Wisely, we did, and then made for a small café that served a clientele of recently stranded refugees.

As the rebels departed, they blew up an 81-car munitions train stranded on a siding.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis now stranded in the mountains are awaiting the outcome of those battles.

GALLERY: Stranded at Bangui Airport: The Refugee Crisis in Central African Republic (PHOTOS) This is all well and good.

A Naval Officer who has seen her says she is lying in shallow water—6 fathoms—bottom upwards looking like a stranded whale.

As if to prove that he was a true prophet, the herd split against a rocky pinnacle, and on this we stranded.

But here the artist stranded, the victim of a cabal, despite the protection of Camille Maupin.

Just about now he was utterly stranded, and had to borrow money for even his next day's food.

Fat Boy's two hundred and eighty-odd pounds were drooped over his chair like the blubber of an exhausted, beach-stranded whale.

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