stranded

English

Verb

stranded

1. simple past and past participle of strand

Adjective

stranded (not comparable)

1. (of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
2. (nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.
3. (of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.
4. (of expenses or costs) 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.
5. (in combination) Having the specified number or kind of strands.

   single-stranded, double-stranded

Translations

of a person

• Finnish: hylätty (fi)
• French: abandonné (fr)
• Georgian: გარიყული (gariq̇uli)
• Italian: abbandonato (it)
• Spanish: abandonado (es)
• Swedish: strandsatt (sv)

of a vessel

• Bulgarian: заседнал (bg) (zasednal)
• Dutch: gestrand (nl)
• Finnish: karilla
• French: échoué (fr)
• Hungarian: megfeneklett (hu)
• Italian: incagliato (it)
• Old English: āseten
• Russian: сидящий на мели (sidjaščij na meli), выброшенный на берег (vybrošennyj na bereg)
• Slovak: uviaznutý m
• Spanish: varado (es)
• Swedish: strandad

of a piece of wire: made by combining or bundling thinner wires

• Bulgarian: усукан (bg) (usukan)
• Czech: stočený m
• Dutch: litzedraad (nl) m
• Finnish: punottu (fi)
• Spanish: trenzado (es)
• Swedish: tvinnad (sv)

expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover

• Finnish: upotettu

References

• FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

Anagrams

• darndest