to maroon

Examples

• All

• Those who lived were left prisoners in these stony shells, marooned upon this barren land.

  Noah (2014)

• We had been too long marooned on the farm without the comfort of friends and conversation.

  Fiction book (1999)

• We're marooned, the three of us.

  Terminator Genisys (2015)

• We're marooned, completely cut off.

  Sideshow (2000)

• There are worse things than being marooned.

  The Staying Kind (2018)

• Imagine that you are marooned on an island with little hope of rescue.

  Fiction book (1998)

• You are free, but I wouldn't want to be marooned on a desert island with you.

  Academic text (2001)

• If he were ever to be marooned on a desert isle, he'd be screwed.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A banished duke, ousted by his brother, marooned on a magic island.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The crew was marooned on a deserted island after the storm damaged their ship.

Synonyms

S

to strand

vsto maroon

141 6.7

To leave a person or vehicle stuck somewhere without help

focuses on leaving a person where escape is impossible especially on an island

I

to island

vsto maroon

7.3

To cut off a place or person so they become isolated

leaves a person abandoned in a place they cannot escape from

Compounds

M

maroon-purple

4.1

A purple color with a red-brown shade

M

maroon-spotted

5.4

Having dark red spots

How Abandoned

to abandon

773 3.1

to maroon

19 7.8

to strand

141 6.7

to desert

219 4.2

to leave behind

20 2.1

to leave

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology