stranded

¹

[ stran-did ]

adjective

1. 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

²

[ stran-did ]

adjective

1. composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination):

   a five-stranded rope.

Other Words From

• strand·ed·ness noun
• un·strand·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of stranded¹

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 )

Origin of stranded²

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• aground
• ashore
• grounded
• helpless
• wrecked