to maraud

Examples

• All

• The pirates planned to maraud the coastal towns under the cover of night.

• And they 'woke up' and started marauding in March this year...

  Blog text (27)

• Let's get back to the action here, my cavalier continuing to maraud behind the enemy lines.

• Can we risk it in the hands of a bunch of marauding bandits?

  Hurricane (2018)

• All law enforcement agencies and the military have been organized to search out and destroy the marauding ghouls.

  Night of the Living Dead (1968)

• Gangs are marauding like locusts across the land.

  Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

• Something had happened to devastate Egypt, which made them unable to defend themselves and these marauding hordes took over the whole country.

  Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus (2015)

• Marauding Greeks fired the temple and made off with the virgin priestess, avenging some imagined insult.

  Fiction book (1996)

• To protect their property and rights from bands of marauding robbers and greedy landlords, monasteries mobilized the wrath of their patron saint.

  Academic text (1992)

• The soldiers began to maraud the village, searching for supplies and valuables.

Synonyms

H

to harry

vsto maraud

2 9.1

To attack towns or villages again and again, causing damage and fear

is a roaming search for goods or people rather than repeated attacks

M

marauding

vsto maraud

• NSFW

7.9

Going around looking for things to steal or people to attack

is the verb form meaning the same action rather than adjectival or noun use

R

raiding

vsto maraud

5.1

To enter a place to steal things and damage property

is about roaming to find things or people to attack rather than only looting

Antonyms

D

to defend

∞ 1.3

To protect people and things from attack or harm

How Violent

sack

• Archaic

1 9.2

to pillage

29 8.1

to maraud

• NSFW

11 9.2

to raid

60 3.4

to scavenge

8 6.4

Surface Forms

Etymology