As information a Maroon is:
ma·roon1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-rn)
tr.v. ma·rooned, ma·roon·ing, ma·roons
To put ashore on a deserted island or coast and intentionally abandon.
To abandon or isolate with little hope of ready rescue or escape: The travelers were marooned by the blizzard.
n.
often Maroon
A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A descendant of such a slave.
A person who is marooned, as on an island.
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[From French marron, fugitive slave, from American Spanish cimarrón, wild, runaway, perhaps from cima, summit (from runaways' fleeing to the mountains), from Latin cma, sprout. See cyma.]
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