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ma⋅raud⋅ing

[muh-raw-ding]
–adjective
1. engaged in raiding for plunder, esp. roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
2. undertaken for plunder: a marauding raid.

Origin:
1745–55; maraud + -ing 2

ma⋅raud

[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.


ma⋅raud⋅er, noun


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