stranding 1 of 2

noun

Definition of strandingnext
as in grounding

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stranding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of strand
1
as in wrecking
to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking the ghostly remains of ships that had been stranded by the reef

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2
as in leaving
to cause to remain behind he just drove off, stranding her in some dinky town with just a few bucks and the clothes she was wearing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranding
  1. wrecking
  2. leaving
  3. abandoning
  4. shipwreck
  5. wreck
Verb
  • But when this tournament comes to an end, the Bulls either have to change course or risk wrecking their plans completely.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But his vision of wrecking Israel with the help of Iran and other proxy forces backfired badly.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of wrecking
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  • Et voilà, an entire makeup library with just $15 to spare, leaving me with just enough money to buy one more tube of concealer but likely not a makeup bag to store everything.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Additionally, Legendary recently bought out the remaining equity interest held by Wanda Group, leaving the company solely owned by management and Apollo and launching a new phase of strategic expansion.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of leaving
Verb
  • Videos on social media showed Syrian forces abandoning their posts and melting away.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Surveillance footage showed the suspect fleeing the scene on a bicycle, abandoning it in Central Park, and later boarding a bus at a station in Upper Manhattan.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of abandoning
Noun
  • What’s lost is the heat and swashbuckling adventure of the original tale, a humanist turn that finds Odysseus at the end of his mortal coil, Fiennes at first haggard, awash naked on the shores of Ithaca after a shipwreck has left him unmoored and divorced from his former kingdom.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The musical, about a 19th-century shipwreck and its aftermath, explores the lengths to which human beings will go in order to survive.
    Michael Paulson, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of shipwreck
Noun
  • Notre-Dame was also a wreck during the 19th century when a young French architect named Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was hired to save it from ruin.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • After a series of mishaps and a wreck off Cape Breton, however, Richard W. Haines, an American businessman, bought the ship, made significant repairs and renamed it the Mary Celeste.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
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