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marooned

/məˈrund/
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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. A marooned cruise ship that's stuck on a rocky beach is probably full of marooned passengers.

Definitions of marooned
  1. adjective
    cut off or left behind
    “travelers marooned by the blizzard”
    synonyms: isolated, stranded
    unaccompanied
    being without an escort
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