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marooned

marooned

14 7.9
Alone in a place you cannot leave
  • adjective
  • /məˈrun/
: varado
  • Dude, I am rock-marooned, I can't climb down.

Examples

  • I hollered, "I'm marooned."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Was it ridiculous marooned before that?

  • But we were lonely together, and I felt marooned.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • In this one you play as a marooned Martian Rover.

  • After their boat capsized, the survivors found themselves marooned on an isolated island.

  • The explorers felt marooned in the vast wilderness, cut off from the outside world without any means of communication.

  • When the storm hit the coast, the sailors were marooned on the rocky shore, waiting for rescue.

Synonyms

trapped
vsmarooned
361 4.4

Unable to escape from a dangerous place or situation, for example when surrounded by attackers

is left in a remote place without help and not necessarily facing danger
abandoned
vsmarooned
292 2.8

Left empty and not used, often by people who lived there

is about a person left alone in an unreachable location rather than emptiness
stranded
vsmarooned
147 4.0

Unable to leave a place because no help or transport is available

is left in an inaccessible place often intentionally or by circumstance
isolated
vsmarooned
88 3.8

Far from other places or people and hard to reach

is about being left behind in a place that is hard to reach

How Isolated

marooned
14 7.9
isolated
88 3.8
stranded
147 4.0
stuck
690 1.0

Surface Forms

marooned positive

Morphology

marooned = maroon (transparent) = maroon + ed

Formed by the regular past-participle/adjectival '-ed' from the verb 'maroon', so the meaning 'stranded' follows standard derivation.

Etymology

Marooned comes from an old Spanish word cimarrón that meant 'wild' or 'runaway', a name for people who escaped into the hills. Sailors later used the verb maroon to mean 'leave someone on a lonely island', so marooned means 'stranded and left alone'.