Stranded vs Abanded - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between stranded and abanded

is that stranded is past tense of strand while abanded is past tense of aband.

is abandoned or marooned.

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(strand)

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(of a person) abandoned or marooned.

(nautical, of a vessel) Run aground on a shore or reef.

(of a piece of wire) Made by combining or bundling thinner wires.

expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.

* With utility deregulation, undepreciated equipment which is now redundant may have to be allocated as stranded costs.

* FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbook

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To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce.

To desert; to forsake.

* Spenser:

And Vortiger enforced the kingdom to aband .