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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



... the goat was marooned, is called the Stone Frigate, R. N, and is rated "tender" to the South African Squadron. It lies in 7 degrees 35' south latitude and 14 degrees 25' west longitude, being in the very heart of the southeast trade-winds and about eight hundred and ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum
... kisses, not there to laugh with her and tease her and tell her she was a tyrant, only David loving her in an unintelligible, discomforting way and wanting to read poetry and admire sunsets. The misery of it gripped down into her soul. It was as the thought of being marooned on a lone sand bar to a free buccaneer. They never could leave her so; they never could have the heart to do it. And anger against David, the cause of it, swelled in her. It was he who had done it all, trying to steal her away from the dear, familiar ways ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner
... 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
... passed the island to which I had crossed on the ice bridge. I could see that the bridge was gone now. If I could reach the island I should only be marooned and destined to die of starvation. But there was little chance of that, for I was rapidly driving into the ...
— Adrift on an Ice-Pan • Wilfred T. Grenfell
... gone to sea in his youth in the American whalers; a circumstance to which he owed his name, his English, his down-east twang, and the misfortune of his innocent life. For one captain, sailing out of New Bedford, carried him to Nuka-hiva and marooned him there among the cannibals. The motive for this act was inconceivably small; poor Tari's wages, which were thus economised, would scarce have shook the credit of the New Bedford owners. And the act itself was simply murder. Tari's life must have hung in the beginning by ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson


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