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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



... meet you, Mr. Lidgerwood, I'm sure," said the young man, gripping the given hand until Lidgerwood winced. "Miss Eleanor has been telling me about you—marooned out here in the Red Desert. By Jove! don't you know I believe I'd like to try it awhile myself. It's ages since I've had a chance to kill a man, and ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde
... the Arrow had landed a small supply of dried meats, canned soups and vegetables, crackers, flour, tea, and coffee for the five they had marooned, and these were hurriedly drawn upon to satisfy ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... That world was Garen. The Isis could sit down on Garen, disembark her crew, and be blown up before Mekinese authorities could interfere. Perhaps—possibly—her crew could try to function on Garen as marooned pirates, as outlaws, as rebels against the puppet planetary government. But they knew too much. Every man aboard knew how the interceptor-proof missiles worked. Logan might be the only man who had ever calculated the tables for their use, but if any member of the Isis's crew were captured and ...
— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... while the train swept onwards through open fields and broken woods, the real country at last, towards the Wisconsin forest, there was such a light of genial happiness in his face that had not been seen there since he had been marooned in the mud ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock
... how Margy and Mun Bun looked, marooned as they were on an island in the middle of Clam River, with the tide rising, just get a big, clean stone and put it down in the middle of your bathtub. If you try this you had better put a piece of paper under the stone, so it will not ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's • Laura Lee Hope


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