marooning
- noun
- /məˈrunɪŋ/
- Archaic
:
varamiento
- The sailors often resorted to marooning an enemy on a remote coastline as a common tactic during the age of exploration.
Examples
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To inhabit his island of magpie geography, Defoe assembled his hero from a jumble of half-remembered tales of adventures, maroonings, and shipwrecks.
Academic text (2002) -
Columbus apparently felt so guilty about his involvement in this incident that he thought his marooning was divine punishment.
Fiction book (1999) -
Marooning?
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He will learn, probably with grim satisfaction, that his former commander met his just deserts after the marooning.
Academic text (2002) -
The pirates were notorious for their marooning of captives on deserted islands as a form of punishment.
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After the storm, the crew faced the possibility of marooning when their ship drifted far from any land.
Synonyms
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7.6
The act of forcing someone to leave a country or community as punishment
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5.9
Being left on shore without a way to return to the sea, often of whales or dolphins
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Etymology
Marooning comes from the Spanish word cimarrón, which meant 'wild' or 'runaway' people who lived alone away from towns. Because these people lived apart, English used 'maroon' to mean 'leave someone alone in a lonely place', so marooning is abandoning someone in a remote place.