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stranding

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of strand

noun strandings

  1. The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded. The day of our arrival two belugas had accidentally become grounded in the shallows of a river delta near the station, and now that the tide had gone out, they seemed helplessly stuck. Such strandings are uncommon, and they offer scientists the opportunity to tag, measure, and determine the sex of t
  2. 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.

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@misc{stranding_2026,
  title = {stranding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stranding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}