maroon
verb/məˈruːn/
/məˈruːn/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they maroon | /məˈruːn/ /məˈruːn/ |
| he / she / it maroons | /məˈruːnz/ /məˈruːnz/ |
| past simple marooned | /məˈruːnd/ /məˈruːnd/ |
| past participle marooned | /məˈruːnd/ /məˈruːnd/ |
| -ing form marooning | /məˈruːnɪŋ/ /məˈruːnɪŋ/ |
- to leave somebody in a place that they cannot escape from, for example an island synonym strand
- be marooned (by something) The car was marooned by floods.
- ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
Word Originverb early 18th cent.: from Maroon (a group of people living in the mountains and forests of Suriname and the West Indies), originally in the form marooned ‘lost in the wilds’.Want to learn more?
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