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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

... Hunters went back on me. He gave them a bigger lay. Heard him offering it. Did it right before me. Of course the crew gave me the go-by. That was to be expected. All hands went over the side, and there I was, marooned on my own vessel. It was Death's turn, and it's all in ...

— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London

... a little nearer to the bar and there wait till we arrived. Of course he lied and knew that we were aware of the fact and that his intention had been to slip out to sea with all our valuable property, which he would sell after having murdered or marooned Stephen and the poor cook. But as nothing could be proved, and we were now in strong enough force to look after ourselves and our belongings, I did not see the use of pursuing the argument. So I accepted the explanation with a smile, and asked ...

— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard

... received him with almost the delight of a man who has been marooned on a desert island and was pining for the sight of ...

— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney

... had no letters from home. We were actually marooned on Lemnos Island: as literally marooned on a barren desert isle as any buccaneer of the old Spanish galleon days. We went suddenly back to a savage life. We went down to bathe stark naked, with the sunset glowing orange on our sunburnt limbs. ...

— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave

... dreamed to advantage. Famishing, shipwrecked or marooned, he fought with the big Pacific surf for rock-clinging mussels, and carried them up the sands to the dry flotsam of the spring tides. Of this he built a fire, and among the coals he laid his precious trove. He watched the steam jet forth and the locked shells pop apart, exposing ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

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