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marooned
[ muh-roond ]
adjective
- abandoned on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers:
In exchange for food supplies left for them on the island, the marooned mutineers handed over the ship's instruments and charts.
- placed or left in an isolated and often dangerous position:
Getting flood relief to the marooned villages has proved difficult.
- abandoned or stuck somewhere without resources:
When flights were grounded after 9/11, Canadians offered their hospitality and their homes to put up marooned Americans.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of maroon 2( def ).
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of marooned1
Example Sentences
Lindsey’s parents fly to the Chinese city and fearfully track their eldest’s recovery, leaving their younger daughter, Grace, who was adopted from China, marooned at summer camp with no information.
For United, it has been a historically miserable season, marooned in 14th place, still waiting to win back-to-back Premier League games and contemplating their worst points record in the competition.
The stupendous floods of 1938 — floods so profound that they marooned movie stars on their San Fernando Valley ranches and delayed the Oscars by three days — sent whole prospecting families hustling back down the mountains.
It is not happening, with pressure now increasing on the manager alongside the possibility they could become marooned at the bottom.
But most Indian workers are effectively marooned in the so-called informal sector — laboring at roadside stalls, in small shops and in itinerant trades where they have no guarantee of income or the possibility of advancement.
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