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noun

as in grounding

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verb

present participle of strand

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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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 stranding

Noun

North Beach and North Beach Road have been temporarily closed as a result of the stranding, the National Park Service said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Similar to a person involved in a car accident, dolphins can become injured and exhausted during a stranding and should never be pushed or dragged back into the water, IFAW warned. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2026 And since its stranding, the animal has reportedly been breathing irregularly and hardly moving. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026 The stranding took place at Bigbury Beach in South Devon, about 230 miles southwest of London, according to a statement from the Devon Wildlife Trust, a local conservation charity. — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025

Verb

The wildfires cut off habitat corridors and reduced access to food sources, forcing the apes into plantations inhabited by people in search of food and shelter and stranding them there, Suciadi told The Associated Press on Monday. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 From there, the league’s best bullpen held the Dodgers to two singles in the last four innings, with the Dodgers stranding two runners on base in two of them. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026 And in the ninth, Trent Grisham went down swinging against Rays closer Bryan Baker for the final out, stranding a runner at second. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 But Espino fanned Chase Meidroth before Foster Griffin struck out Tristan Peters looking, stranding runners on second and third. — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Milwaukee led the majors in hits this season, but collected just seven in Game 1 while stranding nine runners. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Starship had gone 99 percent of the way to orbit before, only held back by safety concerns around the possibility of stranding the huge rocket in space. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026 The outage caused thousands of flight cancellations, stranding hundreds of thousands of passengers. — Sarah Young, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 One of the men later fell and injured his knee, stranding the group in the steep canyon overnight. — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranding

Noun

At least, there was a lot less wrecking.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
The Ravens haven’t really had that game-wrecking pass rusher since Terrell Suggs was in his prime.

— The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026

Definition of wrecking

Verb

Pattison joined Ricochet more than two years ago after leaving the UK arm of Pooch Perfect outfit Beyond Productions.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Ambulances were seen leaving the hospital to bring the children's bodies home as mourners wept and wailed.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of leaving

Verb

Carreira cautioned against abandoning wholesale too early, however, as retailers remain vital for reaching customers and building visibility.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2026
Advertisement Dialogue does not mean abandoning our values, excusing aggression, or accepting injustice.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of abandoning

Noun

While old shipwrecks in the area aren’t uncommon, most have dated to roughly 2,000 to 1,500 years ago, during the Roman or Byzantine eras.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
The excavations were led by Hakan Öniz, a professor at Akdeniz University, Antalya, who told CNN that the shipwreck was first discovered four years ago.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of shipwreck

Noun

Ishibashi makes for a resilient and empathetic Junna, even as her character inevitably bears the brunt of much of the film’s divisive moralizing, while Emoto’s Morio is a quivering wreck of fragility and good intentions.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
That Stage 1 wreck was one of many difficult moments for playoff drivers through the afternoon.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of wreck

Noun

As Brolin’s character explains in one of the film’s flashbacks, a whale fall is the marine biology term used to describe the death and sinking of a whale, and the delicate ecological dance that ensues.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Eleven sailors were missing at sea on Tuesday from a ship sunk by a drone attack off Bulgaria, possibly the second deadly sinking of a cargo vessel in the area in a week, prompting Bulgaria to summon Russia’s ambassador.

— Reuters, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026

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