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adjective. uk / məˈruːnd / us / məˈruːnd / Add to word list. left in a place from which you cannot escape: What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island? The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them. Synonym. stranded.
The video for Marooned was released to mark the 20th anniversary of Pink Floyd's The Division Bell. Much of the thought-provoking video was shot by the Floyd...
adjective. us / məˈruːnd / uk / məˈruːnd / Add to word list. left in a place from which you cannot escape: What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island? The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them. Synonym. stranded.
Synonyms for MAROONED: abandoned, feeble, unarmed, high and dry, overcome, passive, weak, disarmed; Antonyms of MAROONED: resistant, protected, sheltered, covered, safe, secure, armed, fortified.
maroon or Maroon : a Black person of the Americas who escaped slavery and formed or joined a free and often secluded settlement or a descendant of such a person. Wherever Africans were enslaved in the world, there were runaways who escaped permanently and lived in free independent settlements.
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.
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.
