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1. Cut off or left behind
   "travellers marooned by the blizzard"
   - isolated, stranded

1. Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
   "the travellers were marooned"
   - strand
    
2. Leave stranded on a desert island without resources
   "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

See also: unaccompanied

Type of: abandon, desert, desolate, forsake, insulate, isolate

Encyclopedia: Maroon