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| Main Entry: |
stranded
 [stran-did] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marooned, abandoned |
| Synonyms: | aground, ashore, beached, cast away, godforsaken, grounded, helpless, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground, shipwrecked, sidelined, sidetracked, wrecked |
| Antonyms: | found |
| Main Entry: | beached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grounded |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aground, ashore, deserted, high and dry, marooned, stranded, wrecked |
| Antonyms: | at sea |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, apostatize, bail out, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out, crawl out, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, give up, go, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, jilt, leave, leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave stranded, light, maroon, opt out, play truant, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, run out on, sneak off, split*, strand, take a hike, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, violate oath, walk |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Example Sentences
- Rescuers in helicopters and boats are searching for the stranded in the wake of the storm.
- Maybe it would be better to be stranded with a baker.
- But the results showed that people would help a stranded robot.
| Main Entry: | ground |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | restrict; drop in place |
| Synonyms: | bar, beach, bring down, dock, down, fell, floor, knock down, land, level, mow down, prevent, strand |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, liberate |
| Main Entry: | isolated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unique; private |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abnormal, alone, anomalous, apart, backwoods, confined, deserted, detached, exceptional, far-out, forsaken, hidden, incommunicado, lonely, lonesome, off beaten track, out-of-the-way, outlying, random, remote, retired, screened, secluded, segregated, sequestered, single, solitary, special, stranded, unaccompanied, unfrequented, unrelated, untypical, unusual, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | included, incorporated, mingling, public |
| Main Entry: | maroon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon |
| Synonyms: | beach, cast ashore, cast away, desert, forsake, isolate, leave, leave high and dry, strand |
| Antonyms: | care, help, maintain, rescue, save, take care |
| Main Entry: | poverty-stricken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very poor |
| Synonyms: | bad off, bankrupt, beggared, beggarly, broke, broke*, destitute, dirt poor, distressed, down and out, down-and-out, hard up, impencunious, impoverished, in dire circumstances, in great need; financially poor, in want, indigent, miserably poor, moneyless, necessitous, needful, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, short*, stone broke, stranded, strapped, strapped, suffering, unmoneyed, wanting |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
| Synonyms: | bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, dilapidate, disable, do in, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, pile up, put out of commission, ravage, raze, run aground, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, shipwreck, sink, smash, smash up, spoil, strand, subvert, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack up, wrack |
| Antonyms: | build, create, repair |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shipwrecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sunk |
| Synonyms: | cast away, grounded, marooned, reefed, stranded, wrecked |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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