marooned

Definition of Marooned in English :

cut off or left behind

Example Sentences:
'an isolated pawn'
'several stranded fish in a tide pool'
'travelers marooned by the blizzard'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Marooned

adjective

1.

left ashore and abandoned, esp on an island

Ben Gunn, the mad marooned sailor

2.

isolated without resources

dropping food from helicopters to marooned villagers

He spent twenty-four hours marooned in the cab of his vehicle.

families marooned in decaying inner-city areas

I was temporarily marooned at home by my injured knee.

tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons

1. To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.

2. To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.

n.

1. often Maroon

a. A fugitive black slave in the West Indies in the 1600s and 1700s.

b. A descendant of such a slave.

2. A person who is marooned, as on an island.