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ma·roon 1 M0117900 (mə-ro͞on′)tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons 1. To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.2. To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.n.1. often Maroona. A fugitive black slave in the West Indies in the 1600s and 1700s.b. A descendant of such a slave.2. A person who is marooned, as on an island. [From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cȳma, sprout; see cyma.]
ma·roon 2 M0117900 (mə-ro͞on′)n. A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red. [French marron, chestnut, from Italian marrone.]marooned (məˈruːnd) adj1. left ashore and abandoned, esp on an island2. isolated without resourcesThesaurusAdj. | 1. | marooned - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"stranded, isolatedunaccompanied - being without an escort | TranslationsEncyclopediaSeemaroonmarooned
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