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Meaning of marooned in English

marooned
adjective
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/məˈruːnd/ us
/məˈruːnd/
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left in a place from which you cannot escape:
What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them.
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stranded
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maroon

verb [ T ] uk
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(Definition of marooned from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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marooned
adjective [ not gradable ]
us
/məˈrund/
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left in a place from which you cannot escape:
My flight was canceled because of a snowstorm and I was marooned at the Denver airport.
(Definition of marooned from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of marooned

marooned
The survivors were marooned on an ice floe and driven against a large berg.
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Others, with the ex-chief, are marooned below the gangway.
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These people are not marooned on a desert island.
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They have been subject to a dehumanising system that has left them feeling marooned and helpless.
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In that way the pathologist will not feel isolated and marooned.
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We may find ourselves marooned here with academic discussions about things which may not be very interesting and not always very important.
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The lights can get broken, and that leads to accidents to children, who are as it were marooned in mid-air.
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When the husband takes the car to work as he must—there is no alternative way of travelling—his wife and children are marooned.
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There are old-age pensioners, disabled people and families who are abandoned and marooned by the lack of bus services.
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This means that families and, as they grow older, pensioners become marooned by their less affluent state and by the decline in public transport.
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Our proposals to give mandatory rate relief will assist a large number of people who are themselves disadvantaged and in some cases marooned.
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There must be a breakdown procedure or people may be marooned in the middle of a supermarket or in an isolated lane.
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Many of these migrants are marooned in distant countries and are in a position of special difficulty.
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Now his career is stuck; he is unhappy, marooned, shell-shocked and becalmed.
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In such an event the possibility of so many people being marooned is alarming.
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Translations of marooned

in Chinese (Traditional)
困在某處的，處於無法脫身的困境中的…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
困在某处的，处于无法脱身的困境中的…
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in Spanish
abandonado…
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in Portuguese
abandonado, isolado…
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