maraud

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More rarely when on a mere pilfering maraud, directed against some frontier settlement, or travelling party of whites.

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  1. intransitive verb To rove and raid in search of plunder.
  2. transitive verb To raid or pillage for spoils.

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  • If any of the militia maraud, send them up to me, with a guard. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • They have nothing save a pistol and a handful of bullets to defend themselves against the bands of ravenous ghouls who maraud the roads and heat-buckled Interstates like bizarre, merciless highwaymen. —  California Literary Review
  • The ETS is largely a self given ticket for the corporate world to maraud globally. sinnical:
  • The female guests maraud around in their underwear, Henry's uncle threatens to blackmail his father-in-law-to-be, and Henry's brother is suicidal. —  PopMatters
  • Close associates say that for years Duprey had been motivated by the fear expressed by Dr Eric Williams in the 1970s, that the State must prevent foreign domination-if not, "local sharks would eat most of the local sardines, and foreign whales would continue to maraud unchecked in the waters around Trinidad's shores." —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French marauder, from maraud, tomcat, vagabond.

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  1. from French marauder, play the rogue, go about begging or pilfering, from maraud, a rogue, knave, scoundrel; origin uncertain; perhaps, with suffix -and, -old, from Old French marir, marrir, lose one's way, stray, etc., tr. hinder, annoy: see mar, v.
  2. from maraud, v.
 

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