What is the meaning of marooned?

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verb

  • Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.
    • usage: "the travellers were marooned"
  • Leave stranded on a desert island without resources.
    • usage: "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

adjective

  • Cut off or left behind.
    • usage: "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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