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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
- Example: "bands of marauding Indians"
- Example: "predatory warfare"
- Example: "a raiding party"
[syn: marauding, predatory, raiding]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

marauding adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "marauding": banditry, brigandage, brigandism, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, foraging, foray, freebooting, looting, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory