Maroon (Verb)
Meaning 1
Leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The survivors of the shipwreck were marooned on a remote island with limited supplies.
- After a fierce argument with the crew, the captain was marooned on a deserted island.
- Following a series of violent outbursts, the sailor was marooned on a small island in the Pacific.
- They were marooned on an isolated island, forced to fend for themselves with no hope of rescue.
- The pirates left their victims marooned on an uninhabited island with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
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Meaning 2
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned".
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The sailors were marooned on the deserted island after the ship sank in a storm.
- A freak accident marooned the group of hikers in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal.
- The crew was marooned for weeks on the damaged spacecraft, running low on supplies.
- A sudden sandstorm marooned the explorers in the vast desert, forcing them to wait for rescue.
- The sailors deliberately marooned the mutineer on an uninhabited island as punishment for his rebellion.