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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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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)

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

2 days ago · A 14-foot thresher shark died after becoming stranded in shallow water near Wellfleet, Massachusetts, despite rescue efforts by the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance.