Marooned

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Maroon \Ma*roon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marooned}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Marooning}.] [See {Maroon} a fugitive slave.]
     To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and
     leave him to his fate.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Marooning party}, a social excursion party that sojourns
        several days on the shore or in some retired place; a
        prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] --Bartlett.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  marooned
       adj 1: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several
              stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by
              the blizzard" [syn: {isolated}, {stranded}]
       2: put ashore and abandoned on a desolate island or coast; "the
          marooned pirate in `Treasure Island'"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "marooned":
     abandoned, aground, castaway, derelict, deserted, discarded,
     disused, forsaken, foundered, grounded, high and dry, jettisoned,
     left, on the rocks, set fast, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck,
     stuck fast, swamped, wrecked