stranded
verb
- 1
To run aground; to beach.
- 2
To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- 3
To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
“Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.”
verb
- 1
To break a strand of (a rope).
- 2
To form by uniting strands.
adjective
- 1
(of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
- 2
(of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
- 3
(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
- 4
(of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
- 5
(in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.
“single-stranded, double-stranded”
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