Synonyms of maroon

maroon

verb

as in to leave

to cause to remain behind

sailors marooned on a desert island

Synonyms & Similar Words

• leave
• strand
• abandon
• desert
• dump
• forsake
• ditch
• walk out on
• walk away from
• shed
• fling
• scrap
• quit
• throw away
• cut off
• discard
• relinquish
• escape
• throw out
• retreat (from)
• withdraw (from)
• vacate
• separate (from)
• hand over
• sacrifice
• ignore
• yield
• jettison
• junk
• give up
• shuck (off)
• surrender
• renounce
• take off (from)
• forget
• reject
• repudiate
• deliver
• disown
• distance
• abjure
• disregard
• neglect

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• have
• retain
• possess
• own
• keep
• reserve
• hold
• withhold
• reclaim
• save
• harbor
• redeem
• rescue

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of maroon

That many universities have partnered with tech companies to provide students with access to their shiny AI models has only served to rubber stamp and accelerate the tech’s adoption in the classroom, marooning individual instructors to figure out how to work around AI on their own. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 June 2026

As a white male who inhabited a once homogeneous town, Harry feels marooned, marginalized by the social and racial turmoil of the late 1960s. — Time, 12 May 2026

Thinking of my mother marooned in her house was dismaying to me. — Nicholas Dawidoff, New Yorker, 10 May 2026

The oldest sleeper carriage on the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, Sleeping Car 3309 was famously marooned in a snow drift sixty miles from Istanbul in 1929. — Rebekah Peppler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 May 2026