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Marooned

adjective

Cut off or left behind. Synonyms: isolated, stranded. "Several stranded fish in a tide pool" , "Travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Maroon

verb

(past & past part. marooned; pres. part. marooning)

Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue. Synonym: strand.

Leave stranded on a desert island without resources.

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"Marooned" Quotes from Famous Books

... frankness is always better than secretiveness, the situation is usually cleared by announcing it. On the other hand, as illustrated above, the certain knowledge of two persons' absorption in each other always creates a marooned situation. When it is only supposed, but not known, that a man and girl particularly like each other, their segregation ...

— Etiquette • Emily Post

... us?" asked Jimmy. It was a perfectly natural question. Here was one—by most appearances an American officer—marooned with some American doughboys in the midst of the Germans. Why should he not cast his lot with them, and lead them to the best of his ability to the safest place? He was an officer—there was no question of that—and it was his right to lead. But he seemed disturbed at Jimmy's question. He looked ...

— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates

... "crowns for convoy shall be put into your purse. Many a ship's crew would have marooned you on a desert ...

— The Voyage of the Hoppergrass • Edmund Lester Pearson

... this was how it happened. He was the strongest fellow I ever saw; he could tear a whole pack of cards across with his hands. That man was all muscle. He and I had paddled this botanizing creature across to an island where some marooned fellow had built a hut, and we kept a little whisky in a bunk, and used the place sometimes for shooting or fishing. It was latish one night, the botanist had not come home, I fell asleep, and left ...

— In the Wrong Paradise • Andrew Lang

... While we were marooned here we visited Vale Crucis Abbey, about a mile distant. The custodian was absent, or in any event could not be aroused by vigorously ringing the cowbell suspended above the gate, and we had to content ourselves ...

— British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, - Wales And Scotland • Thomas D. Murphy

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