maroon on an island



maroon someone on an island

to strand someone on something; to abandon someone on something, such as an island. The pirate captain marooned his first mate on a small island in the Caribbean. Through a navigation error, I marooned myself on a tiny island east of Guam.
See also: island, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Madhur-Indian, Hindi
TildaTEEL-dah (Finnish)English, Swedish, Finnish
DesidÉRia-Portuguese
Kasandrakə-SAN-drə (English)English (Modern), Polish
TeaTE-ah (Finnish)Croatian, Slovene, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish
Romilda-Italian, Ancient Germanic