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1. Cut off or left behind
   "several stranded fish in a tide pool";
   - isolated, marooned

1. Leave somewhere without a means of travel
   "the travellers were stranded";
   - maroon
    
2. Drive (a vessel) ashore
    
3. Bring to the ground
   "the storm stranded the ship";
   - ground, run aground

See also: unaccompanied

Type of: abandon, desert, desolate, forsake [literary], land

Encyclopedia: Stranded