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• v  leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
  the travellers were marooned
• v  leave stranded on a desert island without resources
  The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
• s  cut off or left behind
  travelers marooned by the blizzard

• The premise: A planeload of young boys is marooned on a nameless tropical island and they are forced to fend for themselves.
• Romantic Man dreams of being marooned on a desert island with one ideal woman.
• Motorists and bus passengers were marooned in stores, juke joints, crossroads hamlets all over the storm area.

• maroon
• strand
• isolated
• stranded

News & Articles

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• Video: Three countries offer asylum to Edward Snowden
  Three Latin American countries - Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia - have made offers of asylum to Edward Snowden. Charlie D'Agata reports how the NSA leaker, who has been marooned at a Moscow airport for two weeks, would be able to make a clean break.
  July 6, 2013 - CBS News
• Helicopter plucks stranded NC kayaker from river
  PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say rescuers from the N.C. Highway Patrol used a helicopter to pluck a marooned kayaker from the rain-swollen Haw River.
  July 6, 2013 - The Daily Reflector
• Snowden adds six countries to his search for asylum
  NSA leaker Edward Snowden has sent out appeals for asylum to six more countries, WikiLeaks reported Friday, in a sign of the marooned fugitive's mounting desperation in the face of international indifference to his plight.        
  July 5, 2013 - Chicago Tribune

Quotes

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• Chakraborty in AFP
  Many islands and a large swathe of the mangrove forest in the Sundarbans are still under water,Chakraborty said. "We have been dropping food to marooned people by helicopter."
• Paul Jewell in Sportinglife.co.za
  Wigan manager Paul Jewell believes the Premier League would have enforced a points penalty on West Ham over the Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano transfer affair if they had been "marooned like Watford" at the bottom of the league.
• Nitish Kumar in Hindu
  Over five lakh marooned people have been evacuated so far and the rest, too, would be shifted to relief camps and safe shelters in the next three days,Kumar said after a meeting with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) team led...