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Marooned   /mərˈund/   Listen
Marooned

adjective
1.
Cut off or left behind.  Synonyms: isolated, stranded.  "Several stranded fish in a tide pool" , "Travelers marooned by the blizzard"


Maroon

verb
(past & past part. marooned; pres. part. marooning)
1.
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.  Synonym: strand.
2.
Leave stranded on a desert island without resources.



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"Marooned" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I am marooned on island in Lake of Thousand Isles. I landed here from a motor boat with wireless outfit. Lake thieves stole my boat and left me here with outfit and little food. Will starve in few days if I don't get help. My ...
— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield
... the toggles of his cold-weather cape, put his head down and hunched his shoulders, and walked into the teeth of the wind. He did not look back at the Polaris, marooned indefinitely on Irwadi despite anything the Centaurian owners or anyone else for that matter ...
— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance
... mechanisms of the remote control which Tiedus had used in returning the basket lift to the car that had brought the two Earth men from Ilen-dar. Again and again he returned to his manipulations after peering anxiously upward. But the basket did not respond to the call. They were marooned atop the empty shell of ...
— The Copper-Clad World • Harl Vincent
... Kurt. I can't help it because your old ark won't budge. I didn't steal anything off it. Wouldn't it be fierce if you were marooned on the trail with a thief who ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... one of them, save in the dozen set apart for an interval of refreshment and romance in the middle. Nay, but was not the primitive romance a gentler combat, itself, between Martin Conisby and Lady Joan Brandon, marooned, solitary, upon the Island where they did find (and lose) a treasure even greater than Black Bartlemy's? After having "consorted with pirates and like rogues" and having "endured much of harms and dangers, as battle, shipwreck, prison ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, October 20, 1920 • Various


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