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stranding
Word definitions for stranding in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strand \Strand\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stranded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stranding .] To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act to strand. vb. (present participle of strand English)
Usage examples of stranding.
Again the strange sensation of deja vu swept over her as she walked past the old pearling sheds, the long jetty where the tide had exposed the mudflats, stranding mangroves in the tidal channels.
Or he might have the sense to turn the frigate round and run her ashore properly, stranding her so that he could save his crew but knowing the British could never refloat his ship.
Worse, the spaceship could turn into gossamer and cobwebs at any moment, stranding him in cislunar space with nothing but a pressure suit, slowly suffocating as his air supply ran out.
And think of this: among the visitors he was trying to save from permanent stranding there must be some of the fanatical Ticktock leaders.
Cain was stealing his horse, leaving him afoot, stranding him in the middle of nowhere with a band of bloodthirsty Utes about to close in.
His gaze was fixed on the open door of the bus. It could snap shut at any instant, he knew, stranding him there out in the open.
Khan and his fellow supermen, stranding them on a primitive planet somewhere near the Mutara Sector.
They are associated with a great unstratified formation of mud and sand, containing rounded and angular fragments of all sizes, which has originated [15] in the repeated ploughing up of the sea-bottom by the stranding of icebergs, and by the matter transported on them.
This time the sea slowly rolled back, stranding the Concepcion and exposing the floor of the sea.
It started the second morning after the aliens blew up Cosmograd, ending the science-fiction convention where he was guest of honor, and stranding him in Kansas City.
Ports would freeze throughout the Baltic and the North Sea, stranding ships carrying oil and liquefied natural gas used for heating, not to mention millions of tons of food imported from other countries.
There was still no official estimate of how many lives had been saved from fires, or stranding in Underground tunnels, or road pileups, or the lethal mundanity of being trapped in stuck elevators.
A job that had taken as many as three weeks at other whale strandings had been accomplished in only three days.
There were articles from scientific journals on cetacean biology, on underwater acoustics, news items about whale strandings, some that didn't seem connected at all.
Pressing his foot upon it, till the rope hummed like a harp-string, then eagerly bending over it, and seeing no strandings, Ahab exclaimed, "Good!