stranded

verb

  1. 1

    To run aground; to beach.

  2. 2

    To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

  3. 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. 1

    To break a strand of (a rope).

  2. 2

    To form by uniting strands.

adjective

  1. 1

    (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.

  2. 2

    (of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.

  3. 3

    (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.

  4. 4

    (of expenses or costs) That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.

  5. 5

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

    single-stranded, double-stranded

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