Definitions for stranded

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stranded strand·ed

Spelling: [stran-did]

IPA: /ˈstræn dɪd/

Stranded is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 353 anagrams from letters in stranded (addenrst).

Definitions for stranded

noun

1. the land bordering the sea, a lake, or a river; shore; beach.
2. one of a number of fibers, threads, or yarns that are plaited or twisted together to form a rope, cord, or the like.
3. a similar part of a wire rope.
4. a rope made of such twisted or plaited fibers.
5. a fiber or filament, as in animal or plant tissue.
6. a thread or threadlike part of anything:
7. a tress of hair.
8. a string of pearls, beads, etc.

adjective

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

verb (used with object)

1. to drive or leave (a ship, fish, etc.) aground or ashore:
2. (usually used in the passive) to bring into or leave in a helpless position:
3. to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
4. to break one or more strands of (a rope).

verb (used without object)

1. to be driven or left ashore; run aground.
2. to be halted or struck by a difficult situation:

Origin of stranded

First recorded in 1805-15; strand² + -ed³

Examples for stranded

Ongoing tensions between Moscow and Kiev could threaten those supply lines, leaving Russians there stranded.

Strolling along the sands one day, he observed a stranded cuttlefish.

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

They were stranded, as it were, on some reef above a dense void.

How stranded your friends must have been for a topic when they talked of me!

Then the stage broke down and I began to think I was stranded at Bayport.

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

Blackwater airdropped supplies to stranded soldiers of the 82nd Airborne for free until the Air Force provided a contract.

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

At Zierikzee, in Zeeland, a whale has been stranded by a high tide and a gale of wind.