stranded
Meaning of stranded
adjective
- left without the means to move from somewhere.
she offers a lift to a stranded commuter
- (of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore.
a stranded whale
- (of thread, rope, or similar) arranged in single thin lengths twisted together.
stranded cotton
the many-stranded passions of the country
- leave (someone) without the means to move from somewhere.
two of the firm's trucks are stranded in France
they were stranded by the blizzard
- drive or leave (a boat, sailor, or sea creature) aground on a shore.
the ships were stranded in shallow water
quantities of sea creatures were left stranded
Old English (as a noun), of unknown origin. The verb dates from the early 17th century.
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Hyphenation of stranded
stranded
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- stranded is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
stranded synonyms
Meaning isolated:
Meaning unable to defend oneself or to act without help:
Meaning having been deserted or left:
Meaning abandoned or deserted:
Meaning (of a place) empty of people:
Meaning catch (an animal) in a trap:
Meaning hauled up or stranded on a beach:
Meaning well balanced and sensible:
Meaning push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something):
Meaning (of a person or ship) suffer a shipwreck:
Meaning having been wrecked:
Anagrams of stranded
Words that rhyme with stranded
abanded, anded, apprehanded, backhanded, banded, barehanded, begarlanded, bellylanded, beribanded, branded, cleanhanded, closehanded, coexpanded, commanded, companded, countermanded, crashlanded, crossbanded, demanded, desanded, disbanded, doublehanded, engarlanded, evenhanded, expanded, fanded, forehanded, fourhanded, freehanded, garlanded, grandstanded, handed, hardhanded, heavyhanded, highhanded, hornyhanded, husbanded, interbanded, ironhanded, islanded, landed, largehanded, lilyhanded, misbranded, misunderstanded, multistranded, nonbranded, nonexpanded, nosebanded, offhanded
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