maraud

Definition of maraud

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(intransitive)To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.

“a marauding band”
“Peace Plunder, Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.”
“[…] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.”

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verb

(intransitive)To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.

“a marauding band”
“Peace Plunder, Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.”
“[…] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.”
(intransitive)To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.

“A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.”
(transitive)To raid and pillage.

“As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”),…

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From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren (“to obstruct, hinder”), Old Saxon merrian (“to hinder, waste”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to offend”). Related to mar.

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