Definition of "marooning" []

• Present participle of maroon. (verb)

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• ""This kind of marooning cruising West India trade of plundering and burning towns," he writes, "though it hath been long practised in these parts, yet is not honourable for a princely navy, neither was it, I think, the work designed, though perhaps it may be tolerated at present.""
• "But whether he had attempted the destruction of the three other boys by "marooning" them upon the rocks -- as their parents firmly believed -- or whether he had himself withdrawn from their company simply because he did not like them, was never known."
• "I still support marooning Broder on an ice floe and pushing him out to sea."