marooned
- 1Simple past and past participle of maroon.
Pirates marooned the mutineer on a barren spit of sand with a single flask of water.
The crew found themselves marooned after the tide swept their dinghy out to sea.
Note
A regular -ed form that does much of its work as a participle. With have it builds the perfect (they had marooned him). With be or get it builds the passive, and after find, leave or feel it reads almost as an adjective: left marooned, feeling marooned. Only the verb meaning 'abandon somewhere remote' stands behind it. The dark-red color and the Maroon peoples share the spelling but have no verb to inflect.
marooned is a form of maroon
maroon, verb: To abandon someone in a remote, desolate place, such as a desert island. Full entry
- Spelling
- maroon → marooned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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