From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmaroonma‧roon1 /məˈruːn/ noun [uncountable] CCa dark brownish red colour —maroon adjective
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maroon• Meticulously painted in blood maroon and bruise brown, the body parts form an impenetrable jungle trapping various objects in their interior.maroonmaroon2 verb [transitive] MOVE/CHANGE POSITIONif you are marooned somewhere, you are left in a place where there are no other people and where you cannot escape → stranded The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere.Grammar Maroon is usually passive.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
maroon• Rusting trawlers are marooned in the sand.• Token children marooned on the Harrogate platform could not reduce the wrinkle count in the auditorium.• A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer.• Lived out as the grandfather has lived it, such a desire maroons the self in heroic narrative.Origin maroon1 (1700-1800) French marron “chestnut” maroon2 (1600-1700) maroon “runaway black slave” ((17-19 centuries)), from American Spanish cimarrón, from cimarrón “wild” 