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[muh-rawd] 
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | 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)
| 2. | to raid for plunder (often used passively): At the war's end the country had been marauded by returning bands of soldiers. |
–noun
| 3. | Archaic. the act of marauding. |
Origin:
1705–15; < F marauder, deriv. of maraud rogue, vagabond, MF, perh. identical with dial. maraud tomcat, of expressive orig.
1705–15; < F marauder, deriv. of maraud rogue, vagabond, MF, perh. identical with dial. maraud tomcat, of expressive orig.
Related forms:
ma⋅raud⋅er, noun
Synonyms:
1, 2. invade, attack; ravage, harry.
1, 2. invade, attack; ravage, harry.
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| ma·raud (mə-rôd') v. ma·raud·ed, ma·raud·ing, ma·rauds v. intr. To rove and raid in search of plunder. v. tr. To raid or pillage for spoils. [French marauder, from maraud, tomcat, vagabond.] ma·raud'er n. |
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Maraud
Ma*raud"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marauded; p. pr. & vb. n. Marauding.] [F. marauder, fr. maraud vagabond, OF. marault; of uncertain origin, perh. for malault, fr. (assumed) LL. malaldus; fr. L. malus bad, ill + a suffix of German origin (cf. Herald). Cf. Malice.] To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. "Marauding hosts." --Milman.Maraud
Ma*raud"\, n. An excursion for plundering.
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maraud
1698 (implied in marauder), 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 assoc. with Count Mérode, imperialist general, whose troops were notoriously ill-disciplined.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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