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1. Of dark brownish to purplish red
   - brownish-red

1. A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red colour
    
2. An exploding firework used as a warning signal
    
3. A person who is stranded (as on an island)
   "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there"

1. Leave somewhere without a means of travel
   "the travellers were marooned";
   - strand
    
2. Leave stranded on a desert island without resources
   "The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island"

Derived forms: marooning, maroons, marooned

See also: chromatic

Type of: abandon, desert, desolate, firework, forsake [literary], insulate, isolate, purplish red, purplish-red, pyrotechnic, unfortunate, unfortunate person

Encyclopedia: Maroon, Patrick