Defenition of the word maroon
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Defenition of the word maroon
- A runaway slave in the West Indies, Central America, South America, or North America.
- To leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue.
- An exploding firework used as a warning signal.
- dark brownish to purplish red
- an exploding firework used as a warning signal
- isolate without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
- leave stranded; put ashore on a desolate island and abandon
- a dark purplish red to dark brownish red
- a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"
- leave stranded on a desert island without resources; "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"
- leave stranded or isolated withe little hope og rescue; "the travellers were marooned"
- a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
- a person who is stranded (as on an island)
- leave stranded on a desert island without resources
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- of dark brownish to purplish red
Synonyms for the word maroon
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- abandon
- be stuck
- burgundy
- claret
- dark red
- desert
- leave behind
- reddish purple
- strand
Similar words in the maroon
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- chromatic
- colored
- maroon
- marooned
- marooning
- maroons
Hypernyms for the word maroon
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- abandon
- desert
- desolate
- firework
- forsake
- insulate
- isolate
- lurch
- purplish red
- purplish-red
- pyrotechnic
- pyrotechnics
- unfortunate
- unfortunate person
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