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Adjective: marooned  mu'roond
  1. Cut off or left behind
    "travellers marooned by the blizzard";
    - isolated, stranded
Verb: maroon  mu'roon
  1. Leave somewhere without a means of travel
    "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 [literary], insulate, isolate

Encyclopedia: Marooned

Maroon, Patrick