Words · Familiar
maroon
/mɚˈun/ · 6 letters · 5 distinct letters
- verb
leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
the travellers were marooned
- adjective
of dark brownish to purplish red
- noun
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
- noun
a dark purplish red to dark brownish red color
- noun
an exploding firework used as a warning signal