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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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Madhur | | - | Indian, Hindi |
| Tilda | | TEEL-dah (Finnish) | English, Swedish, Finnish |
| DesidÉRia | | - | Portuguese |
| Kasandra | | kə-SAN-drə (English) | English (Modern), Polish |
| Tea | | TE-ah (Finnish) | Croatian, Slovene, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish |
| Romilda | | - | Italian, Ancient Germanic |