Synonyms of the word maroon


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maroon

  • n. An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves.
  • n. A castaway; a person who has been marooned.
  • adj. Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples.
  • v. To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.
  • n. A dark red, somewhat brownish, color.
  • adj. Of a maroon color.
  • n. (nautical) A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew…
  • n. (slang, derogatory) An idiot; a fool.

abandon

  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of.
  • v. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.
  • v. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to…
  • v. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
  • v. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming…
  • v. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
  • n. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation…
  • n. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.
  • adv. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.

chromatic

  • adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
  • adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
  • adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

desert

  • n. (usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.
  • n. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.
  • n. (figuratively) Any barren place or situation.
  • adj. Abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited; usually of a place.
  • v. To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary…
  • v. To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.

desolate

  • adj. Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
  • adj. Barren and lifeless.
  • adj. Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
  • adj. Dismal or dreary.
  • adj. Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • v. To deprive of inhabitants.
  • v. To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • v. To abandon or forsake something. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English…
  • v. To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.

firework

  • n. A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames,…

forsake

  • v. To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce.

insulate

  • v. To separate, detach, or isolate.
  • v. To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity,…

isolate

  • v. (transitive) To set apart or cut off from others.
  • v. (transitive) To place in quarantine or isolation.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
  • v. (transitive) To insulate, or make free of external influence.
  • v. (transitive, microbiology) To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
  • v. (transitive) To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
  • n. Something that has been isolated.

pyrotechnic

  • adj. Of or relating to fireworks.
  • adj. Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
  • adj. Resembling fireworks.
  • adj. Of or relating to pyrotechny.

strand

  • n. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
  • n. (poetic, archaic or regional) The shore or beach of a lake or river.
  • n. A small brook or rivulet.
  • n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
  • n. A street (perhaps from similarity of shape).
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
  • n. Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
  • n. A string.
  • n. An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
  • n. (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
  • n. (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
  • n. (figuratively) A sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
  • n. (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
  • v. (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).

unfortunate

  • adj. not favored by fortune.
  • adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
  • n. An unlucky person.

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