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.

He left me stranded downtown with no car and no money for a bus. If the tide comes in, we'll be stranded on these rocks.

Stranded, a five-part survival miniseries by Les Stroud; see Survivorman Stranded (1986 film), a 1986 TV movie starring William Hickey Stranded (TV series), a 2013 paranormal reality series …

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

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.

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 …

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

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

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