marooned adj 1: cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" [syn: {isolated}, {marooned}, {stranded}]
Maroon \Ma*roon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marooned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marooning}.] [See {Maroon} a fugitive slave.] To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate. [1913 Webster] {Marooning party}, a social excursion party that sojourns several days on the shore or in some retired place; a prolonged picnic. [Southern U. S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "marooned": abandoned, aground, castaway, derelict, deserted, discarded, disused, forsaken, foundered, grounded, high and dry, jettisoned, left, on the rocks, set fast, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, swamped, wrecked