See Also: strand(2)(dictionary)
strand(1)(dictionary)
strand(3)(dictionary)
strand(4)(dictionary)
c strand(medicine)
strand(5)(dictionary)
plus strand(medicine)
strand(dictionary)
h strand(medicine)
viral strand(medicine)

strand(4) (iou)



strand verb1. [strand] E17.
[from STRAND noun1.]
verb trans.
a. Drive or wash aground on a shore or bank; leave aground (esp. by the ebbing of the tide); beach, ground. Freq. in pass. E17.
G. Greene The water went down too quickly and one of them was stranded.
b. fig. Abandon in an isolated or inaccessible position; leave (behind), esp. by withdrawing a means of access or transport. Usu. in pass. M19.
Listener Holidaymakers..are stranded all night in their cars at Dover because of a seamen's strike.
verb intrans. Run aground. L17.
Ships Monthly She stranded off a desolate stretch of the African coast.
stranding verbal noun1 the action of washing ashore, running aground, etc.; an instance of this: E19.