Usually means: Abandoning someone on deserted island.
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  1. marooning: Merriam-Webster
  2. marooning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. marooning: Vocabulary.com
  4. marooning: Wordnik
  5. marooning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. marooning: Wiktionary
  7. Marooning, marooning: Dictionary.com
  8. Marooning (disambiguation), Marooning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Marooning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Marooning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. marooning: FreeDictionary.org
  12. marooning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. marooning: Encyclopedia

(Note: See maroon as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (marooning)

▸ noun:  An act of abandoning a person in a remote, deserted place.

Similar:
strand, colored, chromatic, abandoning, abandonee, absconding, anachoresis, solitude, self-exile, desertness, more...

Types:
castaway, stranded, shipwrecked, more...

Phrases:
marooning party, more...

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Similar:
strand, colored, chromatic, abandoning, abandonee, absconding, anachoresis, solitude, self-exile, desertness, more...

Types:
castaway, stranded, shipwrecked, more...

Phrases:
marooning party, more...



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