marooned

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You are marooned on a planet the size of earth.

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cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

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adjective

cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for marooned.

adjective

cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"

Example sentences

You are marooned on a planet the size of earth.

Wikileaks admits he is "marooned" in Russia and they don't seem to have any more tricks up their sleeves to get him out.

It's still my favorite language; if I were marooned on a desert island with only one compiler, it would have to be for C.

That was a great story, and it speaks to the fact that tropes like prison escape, bank heist, and marooned on an island appeal to some human instinct

I didn't understand cooking until my coworkers at Waffle House marooned me at the grill during a Sunday morning rush.

"In his eyes, his entire business was marooned with little hope of recovery due to the limited amount of information he was working with.

At the top, Obama was presenting to a cheering crowd and just below, Tom Hanks sat marooned on an island screaming desperately at his inanimate volleyball.

Considering how connected these devices are only, marooned data would not already be available elsewhere.

I thought this would be yet another reference to a sci-fi story where someone is marooned on a planet with nothing, and they use their chemistry knowledge to re-implement enough metallurgy to build a spark-gap radio and get rescuced.