Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
maroon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective cut off or left behind
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Examples
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These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Psychologically "marooned," Dale finds a woman in the village who is in real trouble.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997
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Even so, few of the 'marooned' holidays had passed off without trouble, and in the end the agency had abandoned them.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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Even so, few of the 'marooned' holidays had passed off without trouble, and in the end the agency had abandoned them.
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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This brought out the full particulars of the affair, and Tom listened to the end of a rather excited account of what had happened that afternoon -- both on the island where Helen and Ruth had been "marooned" and here at the camp -- together with the suspicions and curiosity about the island which had been dubbed the Kingdom of Pipes.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson
slumry commented on the word marooned
It's what happened when the red ship and the blue ship collided.
July 19, 2015
bilby commented on the word marooned
It's what happened the kangaroo and its mother were shipwrecked.
July 20, 2015