A person who is stranded (as on an island).

Roget 434: red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose [Fr.], rose du Barry^†; magenta, damask, purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth; gules [Heral.].    ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.    [Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine^†; ruddle^†, madder; Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto^†; annatto^†, realgar, minium^†, red lead.    redness etc. adj.; rubescence^†, rubicundity, rubification^†; erubescence^†, blush.    ... show more

Roget 623: abstention, abstinence; for bearance^†; refraining etc. v.; inaction etc. 681; neutrality.    avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion etc. 893.    avolation^†, flight; escape etc. 671; retreat etc. 287; recoil etc. 277; departure etc. 293; rejection etc. 610.    shirker etc. v.; truant; fugitive, refugee; runaway, runagate; maroon.    ... show more

A dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color.

An exploding firework used as a warning signal.

Leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue:
— The travellers were marooned.

synonym: strand.

Roget 782: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate^†, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf etc. (disuse) 678; set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.    give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of, be quit of, get quit of; eject etc. 297.    rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess oneself of; wash one's hands of.    discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds, throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away; jettison; reject.    quit one's hold, quitclaim.    ... show more

Roget 893: be secluded, live secluded etc. adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.]; retire, retire from the world; take the veil; abandon etc. 624; sport one's oak [Slang].    cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.    depopulate; dispeople^†, unpeople^†.    ... show more

Dutch: falen, stranden, vastlopen

Leave stranded on a desert island without resources.

Of dark brownish to purplish red.

synonym: brownish-red.

Roget 433: brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous^†, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous^†, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown^†; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki.    sun-burnt; tanned etc. v.. ... show more