[
US
/mɝˈun/
]
[ UK /məɹˈuːn/ ]
[ UK /məɹˈuːn/ ]
VERB
-
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
the travellers were marooned -
leave stranded on a desert island without resources
The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
NOUN
-
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
when the tide came in I was a maroon out there - a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
ADJECTIVE
- of dark brownish to purplish red
How To Use maroon In A Sentence
- Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes.
- The instructor, a short, stocky, ex–Marine sergeant wearing black-rimmed glasses, navy pants, and a short-sleeved maroon shirt that had his name embroidered above the front pocket, was just what I would have expected. Muffins and Mayhem
- Inside reminded her of a hotel; maroon carpet, cream walls and bellboys in black and grey suits.
- I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
- These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
- This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
- The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot. Times, Sunday Times
- Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
- Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
- Black was just above the middle of that table, with maroon the worst colour. Times, Sunday Times
