stranded

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of strand

adj

1. (not-comparable)Abandoned or marooned.

   “I found myself stranded, lunchless, on the sea-front[…]”

   “The 9.17 a.m. diesel train from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen, Scottish Region, was blocked by a snow drift just north of Newmachar Station on January 19. The 57 passengers were stranded for 15 hours.”

2. (not-comparable)Run aground on a shore or reef.
3. (not-comparable)Not having any expressed complement.
4. (not-comparable)Made by combining or bundling thinner wires (into a strand).
5. (not-comparable)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.”

6. (not-comparable)Narrowly missing scoring a century or similar milestone because one's team's innings ends.
7. (in-compounds, not-comparable)Having the specified number or kind of strands.

   “single-stranded, double-stranded, triple-stranded”