marooned

ma·roon ¹  (m-rn)

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 17th and 18th centuries.

b. A descendant of such a slave.

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

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[From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cma, sprout; see cyma.]

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ma·roon ²  (m-rn)

n.

A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red.

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[French marron, chestnut, from Italian marrone.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

marooned - cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard" stranded, isolated unaccompanied - being without an escort

Translations

marooned [məˈruːnd] adj (= stuck) → coincé(e)
to be marooned in → être coincé(e) dans
He spent twenty-four hours marooned in the cab of his vehicle → Il a passé vingt-quatre heures coincé dans la cabine de son véhicule.
marooned at home → coincé(e) chez soi