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marauder

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ma·raud  (m-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·rauder n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.maraudermarauder - someone who attacks in search of booty
piranha, predator, vulture
aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
moss-trooper - a marauder and plunderer (originally operating in the bogs between England and Scotland)
marauder
noun raider, outlaw, bandit, pirate, robber, ravager, plunderer, pillager, buccaneer, brigand, corsair, sea wolf, freebooter, reiver (dialect) They were raided by roaming bands of marauders.
Translations
marauder [məˈrɔːdəʳ] N → merodeador(a) m/f, intruso/a m/f
marauder [məˈrɔːdər] n → maraudeur/euse m/f
marauder
n → Plünderer m, → Plünderin f; (= animal) → Räuber m
marauder [məˈrɔːdəʳ] n → predone m, saccheggiatore/trice, predatore/trice
marauder [məˈrɔːdəʳ] n → predone m, saccheggiatore/trice, predatore/trice


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Once, when the ketch, swerved by some vagrant current, came close to the break of the shore-surf, the blacks on board drew toward one another in apprehension akin to that of startled sheep in a fold when a wild woods marauder howls outside.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
Yet how should this be, while Rowena, Athelstane, and I myself, remain the prisoners of this brutal marauder and have been made so perhaps from a sense of the dangers which our liberty might bring to the usurped power of his nation?
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
To find them, however, I had to light my candles, when the first thing I saw was the havoc my marauder had left behind him.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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