stranded

Strand  (strnd)

A thoroughfare in west-central London, England, running parallel to the northern bank of the Thames River and eastward from Trafalgar Square in the West End to the City of London. Among its well-known fixtures is the Savoy Hotel.

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strand ¹  (strnd)

n.

The land bordering a body of water; a beach.

v. strand·ed, strand·ing, strands

v.tr.

1. To drive or run ashore or aground.

2. To bring into or leave in a difficult or helpless position: The convoy was stranded in the desert.

3. Baseball To leave (a base runner) on base at the end of an inning.

4. Linguistics To separate (a grammatical element) from other elements in a construction, either by moving it out of the construction or moving the rest of the construction. In the sentence What are you aiming at, the preposition at has been stranded.

v.intr.

1. To be driven or run ashore or aground.

2. To be brought into or left in a difficult or helpless position.

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[Middle English, from Old English.]

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strand ²  (strnd)

n.

1. A complex of fibers or filaments that have been twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread, or yarn.

2.

a. A single filament, such as a fiber or thread, of a woven or braided material.

b. A wisp or tress of hair.

3. Something that is plaited or twisted as a ropelike length: a strand of pearls; a strand of DNA.

4. One of the elements woven together to make an intricate whole, such as the plot of a novel.

tr.v. strand·ed, strand·ing, strands

1. To make or form (a rope, for example) by twisting strands together.

2. To break a strand of (a rope, for example).

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[Middle English strond.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

stranded - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" marooned, isolated unaccompanied - being without an escort

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stranded

adjective

1. beached, grounded, marooned, ashore, shipwrecked, aground, cast away He returned to his stranded vessel yesterday afternoon.

2. helpless, abandoned, high and dry, left in the lurch He left me stranded by the side of the road.

Translations

stranded [ˈstrændɪd] adj
to be stranded [traveller, holidaymaker] → être coincé(e)
We were stranded in Paris → Nous étions coincés à Paris.
jellyfish that were stranded on the beach → les méduses échouées sur la plage

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stranded [ˈstrændɪd] adj to be (left) stranded (ship, fish) → essere arenato/a; (person, without transport) → essere lasciato/a a piedi; (without money) → trovarsi nei guai
to leave sb stranded → lasciare qn nei guai

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