marooning
Leaving someone stranded
Marooning is the act of abandoning someone in an isolated place with little chance of rescue or escape.
The word evokes pirates stranding victims on deserted islands: The captain ordered the marooning of the mutinous sailor.
By extension, any situation that leaves someone stranded qualifies: The snowstorm's marooning of travelers lasted three days.
castaway
Shipwrecked and stranded person
- forsakenCompletely abandoned or discarded
- strandedLeft without means to leave
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
isolation · solitude · exile · adrift · derelict · rejection · neglect · outcast · seclusion · left behind
shipwreck
Destroyed vessel at sea
- islandWater-bounded land mass
- reefUnderwater rock or coral formation
- flotsamDebris from wrecked vessels
jetsam · seafaring · uncharted · lifeboat · sailor · tide · shore · beach · vessel · crew
- maritimeships, ship, boat, boats, anchors
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- Caribbean piratespirates, buccaneers, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, privateers
- maritime crimespiracy, ship hijacking, mutiny, pirate attack, hijacking
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- pirate punishmentswalking the plank, keelhauling, keel hauling, plank walking, thrown overboard
abandonment vs. recovery
marooningrescuing
Saving from danger
saving · retrieving · recovering · picking up · fetching