stranded

English

Verb

stranded

1. simple past and past participle of strand

Adjective

stranded

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.

Translations

of a person

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

of a vessel

• Dutch: gestrand (nl)
• Finnish: karilla
• French: échoué (fr)
• Hungarian: megfeneklett
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• 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)

a piece of wire made by combining or bundling thinner wires

• Czech: stočený m
• Dutch: litzedraad (nl) m
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• Spanish: trenzado (es)

expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover

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References

• FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

Anagrams

• darndest