MAROON


Meaning of MAROON in English

I. noun

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Meticulously painted in blood maroon and bruise brown, the body parts form an impenetrable jungle trapping various objects in their interior.

II. verb

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A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer.

Lived out as the grandfather has lived it, such a desire maroons the self in heroic narrative.

Rusting trawlers are marooned in the sand.

Token children marooned on the Harrogate platform could not reduce the wrinkle count in the auditorium.

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