Marooning
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Marooning is the act of leaving someone behind intentionally in an uninhabited area. The word is in use since 1724, and is derived from maroon, a fugitive slave. It could be a corruption of Spanish cimarron "wild". The practice was a penalty for crewmen, or for captains at the hands of a mutineering crew. Pirates may have used marooning as well, and certainly do so quite frequently in fiction. During the late 18th century in the American South, "marooning" took on a humorous additional meaning describing an extended camping-out picnic over a period of several days (Oxford English Dictionary).
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