maroon

[US]/mə'ruːn/

[UK]/mə'run/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a dark reddish-brown color; a runaway black slave
v. to isolate; to exile to a deserted island
adj. of a dark reddish-brown color.

a maroon shirt

maroon hair

maroon lipstick

maroon car

maroon about the city

maroon sb. on a desert island

a novel about schoolboys marooned on a desert island.

The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.

I was marooned on a lonely country road.

During the storm we were marooned in a cabin miles from town.

Our hero, the valiant Spaceman Spiff, is marooned on a strange world ...I'll set my Mertilizer on "deep fat fry." Calvin!You're not paying attention!

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