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Meanings of marooned in English

Cut off or left behind.

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Examples for "isolated"
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While violence is now greatly diminished, sporadic attacks continue in isolated areas.
Reuters
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Police continue to monitor isolated incidences of xenophobic violence in the city.
BBC
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The World Health Organisation said it appeared to be an isolated case.
Reuters
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Farm killings are usually particularly brutal, the victims isolated -easy targets.
The South African
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However, in developing countries with isolated communities, treatment remains an uphill battle.
Reuters
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With Hanjin's situation suddenly in limbo, its ships were stranded at sea.
BBC
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Thousands of stranded foreign migrant workers awaited rescue in the port area.
Reuters
3
The action stranded passengers and goods in Belgium, France, Greece, and Luxembourg.
Wired
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Scores of motorists were temporarily stranded and thousands of homes without power.
Reuters
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Thousands of people have been stranded and at least 100 homes destroyed.
BBC
Usage of marooned in English
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Hundreds of thousands of people across the region remain marooned or homeless.
Reuters
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The danger sign was a warning against being marooned by incoming tides.
The Irish Times
3
Groups of affected residents were marooned on the roofs of their houses.
The Irish Times
4
Then they would be marooned, hundreds or even thousands of miles away!
Earth Abides
5
A city marooned Satellite imagery shows the extent of flooding around Beira.
The Guardian
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Meanwhile, David sat, marooned, trembling in the spray of so much literature.
Roads of Destiny
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Crouching over the fire, the marooned man proceeded to tell his story.
Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen ...
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We were captured by a pirate ship and marooned upon this island.
Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
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The remaining keepers were still marooned on a raft of floating debris.
Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven
10
And the other Aurigeans, down on Earth, would not be marooned there.
The Worshippers
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He got us marooned on a planet that is antithetical to Bith.
From a Certain Point of View
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Residents were marooned for days on rooftops or trapped in their attics.
Reuters
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We're marooned among the mundane demands and petty recriminations of everyday life.
The Guardian
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That made three such marks, three days since Thorvald had marooned him.
Storm Over Warlock
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They've got no food and no boat They're marooned on this island.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
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But Lebanese sources said the Mariam was marooned with paperwork problems.
Reuters
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