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Maraud

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To rove and raid in search of plunder.

v. To raid or pillage for spoils.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.

v. To raid and pillage.

v. To act aggressively.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

n. An excursion for plundering.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To rove in quest of plunder; make an excursion for booty; go about for robbery: used especially of the despoiling action of soldiers in time of war, or of organized bands of robbers or pirates.

n. Spoliation by marauders.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a sudden short attack

v. raid and rove in search of booty

Word Usage

"We are a race of land-robbers and sea-robbers we Anglo-Saxons, and small wonder, when we suckle at the breasts of a breed of women such as maraud my poppy field."

Verb Form

marauded marauding marauds

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

raid foray into

Cross Reference

marauder

Form

marauded marauding

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

plunder

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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