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MAROON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exploding firework used as a warning signal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("maroon" is a kind of...):
firework; pyrotechnic ((usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc.)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("maroon" is a kind of...):
purplish-red; purplish red (a red with a tinge of purple)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who is stranded (as on an island)
Example:
when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("maroon" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Derivation:
maroon (leave stranded on a desert island without resources)
maroon (leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of dark brownish to purplish red
Synonyms:
brownish-red; maroon
Classified under:
Similar:
chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they maroon ... he / she / it maroons
Past simple: marooned
Past participle: marooned
-ing form: marooning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leave stranded on a desert island without resources
Example:
The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "maroon" is one way to...):
insulate; isolate (place or set apart)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
maroon (a person who is stranded (as on an island))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
Example:
the travellers were marooned
Synonyms:
maroon; strand
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "maroon" is one way to...):
abandon; desert; desolate; forsake (leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
maroon (a person who is stranded (as on an island))
Context examples:
“Nay, mate,” said he; “marooned.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The maroon had connived at his escape in a shore boat some hours ago, and he now assured us he had only done so to preserve our lives, which would certainly have been forfeit if that man with the one leg had stayed aboard.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That morning, finding that I was to be involved in the horrid disappointment he had prepared for the mutineers, he had run all the way to the cave, and leaving the squire to guard the captain, had taken Gray and the maroon and started, making the diagonal across the island to be at hand beside the pine.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
