stranded

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It seems that if you're stranded at sea you shouldn't have to find a public beach to get out of the water.

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Quick take

cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

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adjective

cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stranded.

adjective

cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Example sentences

It seems that if you're stranded at sea you shouldn't have to find a public beach to get out of the water.

You still have to plug in overnight and take conservation measures on the road, or you may end up stranded.

What happens is, consumers don't give a damn about our advice, but we won't leave them stranded because of that.

And the exaggerations amount to lies in my book - at no point was the child "stranded", nor made to stay with an actual stranger.

There's no way that threatening someone to leave them stranded in a foreign country is the result of "miscommunication".

I like how it got fairly philosophical—everything eventually turns to philosophy if you are stranded out in space.

If his car seemed "driveable" at the time, I too would've chalked it up to bad luck and tried to survey the damage at home rather than getting stranded on a interstate shoulder.

Some of the people so stranded reported that they were then approached by US government agents that said if they would just 'cooperate' with them everything would be cleared up in no time at all.

Their customer support gave them incorrect instructions to use cruise control to preserve energy, which raises questions about how knowledgable their staff really is if it could leave you stranded.

The US has been systematically confiscating passports from naturalized Yemeni citizens who go home to visit, leaving them stranded.

From the article "What man would just leave his wife in a foreign country stranded outside a conference hall for almost two hours without even letting her know what was going on."How is that not kicking her to the curb?

I'd rather see a few people turned off on electric cars and the rest informed and trained with the care and feeding of the cars during winter, than to see people stranded out in the cold because they weren't aware of their cars' performance envelopes.

Where's the article about saving a stranded man and helping reunite him with his family?The possibility that they would have locked down a major airport, stranding thousands of travelers and generating millions of dollars in lost revenues would have been a true farce.