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"

1. Of dark brownish to purplish red
   - brownish-red

1. A person who is stranded (as on an island)
   "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there" 
2. A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red colour 
3. An exploding firework used as a warning signal

Derived forms: marooned, maroons, marooning

See also: chromatic

Type of: abandon, desert, desolate, firework, forsake, insulate, isolate, purplish red, purplish-red, pyrotechnic, unfortunate, unfortunate person

Encyclopedia: Maroon

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