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Abandoned on a desolate island
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marooned
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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 ...
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vb. (en-past of: maroon )
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Marooned is a 1964 science fiction thriller novel by Martin Caidin , about a manned spacecraft stranded in earth orbit, oxygen running out, and only an experimental craft available to attempt a rescue. A film based on the novel led Caidin to prepare a revised ...
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.