stranding

English

Verb

stranding

  1. present participle and gerund of strand

Noun

stranding (plural strandings)

  1. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
    • 2023 May 3, David Bradley, “Driver Only Operation should depend on passenger density”, in RAIL, number 982, page 62:
      All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.
    1. (grammar, of a word or phrase that can take a complement) Leaving (a word or phrase) without any expressed complement, or allowing (it) to go without one.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From strand +‎ -ing.

Noun

stranding c (singular definite strandingen, plural indefinite strandinger)

  1. ship grounding, ship stranding

Declension

Declension of stranding
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative stranding strandingen strandinger strandingerne
genitive strandings strandingens strandingers strandingernes

Derived terms

  • strandingsgods

References