stranded

English

Etymology

From strand +‎ -ed

Verb

stranded

1. simple past and past participle of strand

Adjective

stranded (not comparable)

1. (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
   • 1904, Rudyard Kipling, Mrs. Bathurst:

     I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front […]

2. (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
4. (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Not having any expressed complement.
5. (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
6. (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.

   With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

7. (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.

   single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded

Related terms

• strandable
• stranding
• unstrandable

Translations

of a person

• Finnish: hylätty (fi)
• French: abandonné (fr)
• Georgian: გარიყული (gariq̇uli)
• Italian: abbandonato (it)
• Spanish: abandonado (es)
• Swedish: strandsatt (sv)

of a vessel

• Bulgarian: заседнал (bg) (zasednal)
• Dutch: gestrand (nl)
• Finnish: karilla
• French: échoué (fr)
• Hungarian: megfeneklett (hu)
• Italian: incagliato (it)
• Old English: āseten
• Russian: сидящий на мели (sidjaščij na meli), выброшенный на берег (vybrošennyj na bereg)
• Slovak: uviaznutý m
• Spanish: varado (es)
• Swedish: strandad

of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires

• Bulgarian: усукан (bg) (usukan)
• Czech: stočený (cs) m
• Dutch: litzedraad (nl) m
• Finnish: punottu (fi)
• Spanish: trenzado (es)
• Swedish: tvinnad (sv)

expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover

• Finnish: upotettu

References

• FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

Anagrams

• darndest