Difference between Maroon and Strand

What is the difference between Maroon and Strand?

Maroon as a verb is to abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island. while Strand as a verb is to run aground.

Maroon

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples. Of a maroon color

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a deserted island.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An escaped negro slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of escaped slaves. A castaway; a person who has been marooned. (colour) A dark red, somewhat brownish, colour. A rocket fired to summon the crew of a lifeboat.

Strand

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The flat area of land bordering a body of water; a beach or shore.Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a rope or cord.A string.An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To run aground.To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

Example sentence: Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

We hope you now know whether to use Maroon or Strand in your sentence.

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