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Examples of marooned. marooned. One site relates to the sealing era of the 1820s, while the second may be associated with a marooned sealing gang in the 1870s. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The survivors were marooned on an ice floe and driven against a large berg. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
Marooned, he could only wait, for if his sponges got wet he'd have to carry the weight for the rest of the night. From NPR The film tells the story of a young girl and boy being marooned on a desert island.
Blackbeard deliberately wrecked his ship and marooned his men before making off with their treasure. They would invite him to follow them onto the roof , then slip back inside and lock the window , marooning him up there for the rest of the day .
verb. marooned; marooning; maroons. transitive verb. 1. : to put ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave to one's fate. 2. : to place or leave in isolation or without hope of ready escape. maroon. 3 of 3.
1. left ashore and abandoned, esp on an island. Ben Gunn, the marooned sailor. 2. isolated without resources. dropping food from helicopters to marooned villagers. He spent twenty-four hours marooned in the cab of his vehicle. families marooned in decaying inner-city areas.
Marooned definition: abandoned on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment or the like, as was done by buccaneers. See examples of MAROONED used in a sentence.
If you say that you are marooned, you mean that you feel alone and helpless and you cannot escape from the place or situation you are in. [...]
marooned. Someone who's marooned is stranded. When a sailor's boat is washed up on the shore of a deserted island after a big storm, both the sailor and the boat are marooned. If a teenager is abandoned at the mall by her friends, you could describe her as marooned.
Definition of maroon verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
The word "marooned" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you want to describe someone who has been abandoned in a remote place or has become isolated from others without means of escape. Example: After the shipwreck, the survivors were marooned on the deserted island.
