strand
/ˈstɹænd/ verb C2- To run aground; to beach.
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- 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.
- To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
He/she/it strands · Past stranded · Past participle stranded · -ing form stranding
Verb forms
- Base form
- strand
- He/she/it
- strands
- Past
- stranded
- Past participle
- stranded
- -ing form
- stranding
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There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.
“American Exchange, Strand—to be left till called for.
“Thank you,” said Holmes, “I only wished to ask you how you would go from here to the Strand.”
The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond.
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