stranded
/ˈstɹændɪd/ adjective B2- Abandoned or marooned.
- Run aground on a shore or reef.
- Not having any expressed complement.
- Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
- That has become unrecoverable or difficult to recover. · With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.
- Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
- Having the specified number or kind of strands. · single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded
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And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case.
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