marooned

verbabandon

Synonyms for marooned

verb abandon

Antonyms for marooned

friendless

adjective. without companionship or confidant

Word Origin & History

"very dark reddish-brown color," 1791, from French couleur marron, the color of a marron "chestnut," the large sweet chestnut of southern Europe (maroon in that sense was used in English from 1590s), from dialect of Lyons, ultimately from a word in a pre-Roman language, perhaps Ligurian; or from Greek maraon "sweet chestnut."

Example Sentences for marooned

It rarely if ever happened that anything was known of him after having been marooned.

Four of us, marooned at Philae, not knowing it, and night coming on.

Anyway, there we was, marooned on that little two-for-a-cent island.

Men have been marooned for neglecting that little precaution.

By barrack and camp life the normal civilian intellect is, as it were, marooned.

Just as well, perhaps, but here I was, marooned upon an island!

A few other wretches was marooned like me in the hotel corridors.

Meanwhile I had taken our launch into the river-mouth and was marooned there.

And the other Aurigeans, down on Earth, would not be marooned there.

That made three such marks, three days since Thorvald had marooned him.

marooned

Synonyms for marooned

Antonyms for marooned

beached

forsaken

friendless

high and dry

left

marooned

Synonyms for marooned

Antonyms for marooned

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beached

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high and dry

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