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Marauding

[muh-raw-ding]

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adjective

engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.

undertaken for plunder: a marauding raid.

Origin:
1745–55; maraud + -ing²

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It is supposed that the party was intended for a marauding excursion.

Once afflicted by marauding gangs, it is now much safer.

At night they pen their animals in stone corrals to shelter them from marauding mountain lions.

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It is supposed that the party was intended for a marauding excursion.

Once afflicted by marauding gangs, it is now much safer.

At night they pen their animals in stone corrals to shelter them from marauding mountain lions.

Against the breathless claim of marauding aliens there are sounder possibilities grounded in current science.

In the days of old, people hid out in the folds of the mountains, far from the coastand marauding pirate ships.

To keep the koi safe from marauding raccoons and great blue herons, the pond has steep sides and hiding places for the fish.

Thieves will disable your traps, wizards will target your mana crystals and clerics will heal the whole marauding gang.

Together, man and dog perform a rescue in a flood, capture some burglars and hurry on to rout a marauding bear.

Afghanistan has been contested by marauding armies and strange traders for millennia.

The year before last, he said he lost five cows and eight sheep to marauding lions.

For years, architects have gone to great lengths to protect their buildings from marauding skaters.

The river remains open but trouble with marauding parties is anticipated when it freezes over.

Covered bins protect your compost from marauding raccoons, neighborhood dogs and other scavengers.

For example, imagine you and your neighbors are hiding in a cellar from marauding enemy soldiers.

NY, ended with marauding bands of young men setting fires and looting concession stands.

But they do listen to the night, and wait for marauding males to come closer.

York pigeons on the lam from marauding bands of netters who sell their meat to market.

Gangs were said to be marauding in the streets with clubs, knives and guns.

The alder leaf is full of holes caused by a marauding insect and is not the sort you would collect and.

Diamonds are so lucrative for predatory governments and marauding rebels that war has become a useful cover for.

And marauding taxi drivers took advantage of the chaos to raise their prices tenfold.

Another concern is the possible impact of marauding flocks of parrots on farms and orchards.

They took refuge from marauding armies within the walls of the towns.

Lawbreaking companies and marauding journalists are a fact of life: they should be punished.

Research shows that huge colonies of marauding army ants use simple movement rules to minimize congestion along forest trails.

In this case, he must track down some marauding cookies, following them into what appears to be his own body.

Eventually he made his way to the bush, a sprawling savanna filled with zebras and wildebeests and marauding elephants.

And although there are wicked mice, those marauding rodents are soon defeated.

J's marauding gang, she flees their hometown in shame, determined to make her way as an actress.

Aloi has declared war on marauding deer after years of putting up with their brazen ways.

The ghost would rather go marauding through the rock star's life than be part of his creepy little museum.

Proponents say the law is aimed at thwarting a tired stereotype, that of the marauding outlaw biker.

The ghost would rather go marauding through the rock star's life than be part of his.

Marauding gangs are grabbing tracts of land to fatten their.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory.

verb (used with object)

to raid for plunder (often used passively): At the war's end the country had been marauded by returning bands of soldiers.

noun

Archaic. the act of marauding.

Origin:
1705–15; < French marauder, derivative of maraud rogue, vagabond, Middle French, perhaps identical with dial. maraud tomcat, of expressive orig.

Related forms

ma·raud·er, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. invade, attack; ravage, harry.

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World English Dictionary

marauding (məˈrɔːdɪŋ)

—*adj*
	wandering or raiding in search of plunder or victims

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Word Origin & History

maraud

1690s, from Fr. marauder, from M.Fr. maraud "rascal," probably from Fr. dial. maraud "tomcat," echoic of its cry. A word popularized during the Thirty Years War (cf. Sp. merodear, Ger. marodiren "to maraud," marodebruder "straggler, deserter") by punning association with Count Mérode, imperialist

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general. Related: Marauder; marauding.

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