STRANDED definition: 1. unable to leave somewhere because of a problem such as not having any transport or money: 2…. Learn more.

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The meaning of STRANDED is having a strand or strands especially of a specified kind or number —usually used in combination. How to use stranded in a sentence.

If you are stranded, you are prevented from leaving a place, for example because of bad weather.

Anything left behind or stuck can be called stranded, like a stranded fish in a tidal pool, or a stranded child at a fair. Stranded involves being left somewhere unpleasant, remote, or …

1. To be driven or run ashore or aground: The boat stranded on the rocks. 2. To be stranded, as on a beach. Used of sea animals.

to drive or leave (a ship, fish, etc.) aground or ashore: The receding tide stranded the whale. (usually used in the passive) to bring into or leave in a helpless position: He was stranded in …

adjective left helpless or without transport. Officials said many people remained stranded even though floodwaters were receding.

Synonyms for STRANDED: landed, grounded, beached, aground, high and dry, alongshore, wrecked, scuttled; Antonyms of STRANDED: offshore, afloat, recovered, salvaged, had, …

We were stranded at the airport for ten hours. (Definition of stranded from the Webster's Essential Mini Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)