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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marauding
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A woman was left for dead in Central Park by a marauding gang of youths.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them.
▪ Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.
▪ Major routes were cart-tracks and marauding bandits and unscrupulous innkeepers thought nothing of robbery and murder.
▪ Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands.
▪ She suddenly saw herself and her comrades not as prophets but as a howling and marauding mob.
▪ The herd solves this problem by forming a defensive circle when marauding wolves attack.
▪ These refugees fell prey to marauding gangs, even to troopers, or to one another.
▪ Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marauding

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.

Wiktionary
marauding
  1. 1 raiding and pillaging 2 (context of an animal English) killing in wanton fashion. 3 (context of an animal English) killing domestic animals. n. Raiding and pillaging. v

  2. (present participle of maraud English)

WordNet
marauding

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

Usage examples of "marauding".

He was certain that the marauding army of Emich was aware of their vulnerability.

There were barriers of class in the city, invisible lines that could not be crossed by a marauding loud-mouthed oik from south London.

French army, under General Breme, was sent on the marauding errand of demanding the public purse of its citizens.

Ring, photino birds were flicking through hyperspace to join the battle, and soon the marauding Qax were surrounded.

Unwilling to risk his new empire by returning to Cross Creek as the war draws closer threatening both his wife and mother, only the Major is there recuperating from a minor wound with an abundance of drink when a marauding band abruptly materializes to shoot him dead after degrading him mercilessly, tormenting the older woman beyond endurance and then in a prolonged scene reveling in its own depiction of cruelty raping the younger one in almost clinical detail.

They left one of the ships stopped and smoking, and cut eastward across the top of the flat Chiba Peninsula at treetop height to Naruto, which the day strikes seemed to have put entirely out of commission, Katori where there was no damage but no activity either, and finally Choshi, where they strafed some parked Jacks and Zekes and ran into light, but highly accurate, AA which holed the tail of one of the marauding Hellcats.

Ruby comes in on Mondays with her warrior cohort and attacks the coffeehouse with an assortment of high-tech blasting gear that would whack Godzilla into submission: those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Robert Sadler will no doubt be caught by some marauding baron as he cometh again from Chester, and he will be thrown into the dungeon, and then my lady will see.

At decreasing intervals, marauding bands of Gora came snooping around.

It was the men without the Marxian vision of growth and discipline who were forever trying to lead little marauding bands against the governments of Europe.

But also those Eastern lands became impossible to traverse, what with the depredations of Huns, Tartars, Mongols, marauding back and forth across Asia.

Ile met head-on the marauding free traders who were attempting to lure the Naskapi to their shore trading posts, ranging far back into the fur country to finalize his trades and claim defacto exclusivity over a territory outside the HBCs Charter.

Then there are these marauding Nguni imp is sweeping through the land.

As weak as a flower, a frail Albanian flower withering away in an icy subcellar underneath Venice, driven there by marauding hordes of barbarians bent on destruction and chaos, once there repeatedly and savagely assaulted by the ravings of primitive minds insanely out of control in Jerusalem.

The ground, torn asunder by the marauding behemoths, was proving treacherous.