verb
definition
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
Examples of marooned in a Sentence
He meets an old man marooned by the traffic.
Still, they were blissfully marooned on their little island of snow for another day until the snow melted enough that Alex could get to work.
The Memoires of a Frenchman, Captain Francois Peron (Paris, 182 4), who was marooned three years on the island (1792-1795), are of much interest.
Thousands of homes were marooned by floodwater, experts estimated the total damage bill could exceed £ 100 million.
She was marooned in a remote outpost of life, doomed only to be a distant watcher.
As the great white leviathan gobbles up the twitterers, the two men realize they've broken twitter, and marooned all of the users in a sea of irrelevance.
According to my source of information, a blood relative can sustain an Oracle marooned without her master.
But in Lesotho, a kilowatt of electricity and additional hot water could transform lives now marooned by poverty, team members said.
Far otherwise is it with man at the stage of savagery - the stage of petty groups pursuing a self-centred life of inveterate custom, in an isolation almost as complete as if they were marooned on separate atolls of the ocean.
Isaac Asimov sold his first short story, Marooned off Vesta, to Amazing Stories when he was eighteen.