maroons
Leaves utterly isolated
Maroons is the plural of maroon in its color sense—a dark brownish-red: The team's colors are maroons and gold.
It also refers to multiple instances of the distress signal, a type of firework that explodes loudly.
As a verb, maroons means to strand someone in an isolated place: The storm maroons travelers at the airport every winter. (Capitalized Maroons refers to communities of escaped slaves and their descendants.)
Left behind completely
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- isolatedSeparated from others
- shipwreckedStranded by maritime disaster
- castawayShipwrecked and stranded person
adrift · forsaken · secluded · uninhabited · solitary · lost · forgotten · disconnected
abandoned
Left behind completely
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- isolatedSeparated from others
- shipwreckedStranded by maritime disaster
castaway · adrift · forsaken · secluded · uninhabited · solitary · lost · forgotten · disconnected · sequestered
burgundy
Deep purplish red
oxblood · reddish-brown · auburn · mahogany · rust · garnet · claret · chocolate · sienna · cordovan
distress
Severe anxiety or suffering
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- Atlantic HistoryAtlantic crossing, transatlantic trade, transatlantic crossing, Columbus, triangle trade
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, African roots
- Caribbean historyJamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Cuba, Trinidad
- Slave Resistanceslave rebellion, revolt, uprising, insurrection, runaways
- Slavery EscapeUnderground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, runaways, fugitives
maroonsreunites
Brings together after absence
reconnects · reintegrates · brings home · returns · restores
- Maroon 5
- what a maroonSarcastic call-out of stupidity
- marooned sailorSeafarer abandoned on land