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marooned
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: isolated , stranded ] put ashore and abandoned on a desolate island or coast; "the marooned pirate in `Treasure Island'"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: maroon )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maroon \Ma*roon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marooned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Marooning .] [See Maroon a fugitive slave.] To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. Marooning party , a social excursion party that sojourns several ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Marooned " is an instrumental track on Pink Floyd 's 1994 album, The Division Bell ; the track won a Grammy Award in 1995.
Usage examples of marooned.
And then, as the ship was attempting to leave after it marooned us, it struck an iceberg and sank.
And now I am back with his girls, plus a couple of our men who were marooned with them.
The realization that they were hunted, that they might be marooned in some alien world, gnawed at their ability to think clearly.
There was a good chance that he had been marooned on that successor world.