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adjective

as in abandoned

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verb

past tense of maroon
as in stranded
to cause to remain behind sailors marooned on a desert island

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Recent Examples of marooned
Adjective
The series is based on a simple premise, following up to 24 starving and marooned people who are forced to vote one another off the island. — Charlotte Walsh, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026 That’s the epiphany of a marooned American astronaut who thinks he’s been rescued by kindly Martians, only to realize he’s been installed as the newest exhibit in their zoo. — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026 On Thursday, officials in Jamaica deployed emergency crews to help clear roads and drop food and supplies into marooned communities. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
The Kennedy Center has grown increasingly marooned from its many patrons and performing arts peers in recent months, and today has a starkly sparse programming schedule. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 13 Aug. 2026 David is especially marooned, a man of a certain generation in a culture that’s rapidly slipping into illegibility for him. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026 The impetus for baseball to seize control of in-market games was accelerated by the demise of the Main Street Sports RSNs, which marooned nine MLB clubs. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026 Cox, entering the game, just stood there, awkwardly marooned in foul territory. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 21 June 2026 In a media briefing, Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd's List, said for the first time in 110 days ships owned by major companies are transiting the strait after effectively being marooned there since February. — Duarte Dias, CBS News, 18 June 2026 In a media briefing, Richard Meade, editor in chief of Lloyd’s List, said for the first time in 110 days, ships owned by major companies were crossing the strait after effectively being marooned there since February. — Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026 As a white male who inhabited a once homogeneous town, Harry feels marooned, marginalized by the social and racial turmoil of the late 1960s. — Time, 12 May 2026 The oldest sleeper carriage on the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, Sleeping Car 3309 was famously marooned in a snow drift sixty miles from Istanbul in 1929. — Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marooned
  1. abandoned
  2. stranded
  3. feeble
  4. unarmed
  5. high and dry
  6. overcome
Adjective
  • According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 16 June 2026
  • The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.
    — Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of abandoned
Verb
  • Some of them, like the one I got stranded on, were full of green rolling hills, tall grasses that rustled in the wind, and wild goats and deer roaming free.
    — Annie Daly, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The yacht came under scrutiny after an expedition cruise ship responded to a request for assistance from a 21-foot skiff stranded in Southeast Alaska.
    — Luisa Yanez August 10, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of stranded
Adjective
  • Instead of using a mirror to gather starlight, MOTHRA has many telephoto lenses, like those on a camera, which can capture faintly glowing wisps of gas and other feeble emanations across a wider field of view.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
  • By an act of war, committed with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United States and without authority of Congress, the Government of a feeble but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of feeble
Adjective
  • Vazquez told police he was being attacked, but witnesses said Hill was unarmed and wasn’t a threat.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Mullin briefly ordered the agency to end traffic stops and vehicle chases after an ICE agent shot and killed an unarmed Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of unarmed
Adjective
  • While the official logline for Tracker‘s fourth season hasn’t been released, fans can expect to witness the fallout from Russell’s decision to leave Colter high and dry at the end of season 3.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
  • Lil Wayne is feeling remorseful after leaving fans in Maine high and dry.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Definition of high and dry
Adjective
  • Sheffield is sticking to her campaign promise of helping Detroit's most vulnerable overcome homelessness.
    — Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 29 July 2026
  • With themes of resilience, victory, and joy as a healing balm, Joy in the Belly of a Riot is a beautiful manifestation of how poetry has the power to heal and help one overcome pain.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Definition of overcome

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