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maraud

/məˈɹɔːd/

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Australia/məˈɹoːd/

maraud verb: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.

Verb

maraud (third-person singular simple present marauds, present participle marauding, simple past and past participle marauded)

  1. (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.1684, Thomas Otway, The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway, volume 2, London: Richard, James, and Bethel Wellington, published 1728, The Atheist; or the Second Part of the Soldier's Fortune, page 88
  2. (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.1770, “Fables for Grown Gentlemen”, in Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume 29, London: A. Hamilton, page 73
  3. (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.1829, Washington Irving, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: In Two Volumes, volume 1, Paris: Baudry, at the Foreign Library, pages 118–9

maraud meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Kannada and Arabic

maraud in Urdu

لوٹ مار, بربادی کرنا, لوٹ مار کرنا

maraud in Bengali

লুণ্ঠন, শিকারের উদ্দেশ্যে ঘুরে বেড়ানো

maraud in Kannada

ಕೊಳ್ಳೆಹೊಡೆ, ಸುಲಿಗೆಮಾಡು

maraud in Arabic

transitive: to raid and pillage
نَهَبَ nahaba

Forms of maraud

third-person singular presentmarauds
present participlemarauding
past participlemarauded
pastmarauded

Origin of maraud

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.

Words that rhyme with maraud

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Questions about maraud

What does maraud mean?
Maraud means to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
What is maraud in Urdu?
Maraud in Urdu is لوٹ مار, بربادی کرنا, لوٹ مار کرنا. See Maraud meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is maraud?
Maraud is a verb.
How do you pronounce maraud?
Maraud is pronounced /məˈɹɔːd/ (UK).
What is the past tense of maraud?
The past tense of maraud is marauded.

Words near maraud in the dictionary

  1. Marattas
  2. marattiaceous
  3. marattialean
  4. marattialeans
  5. Marau
  6. maraud
  7. marauded
  8. marauder
  9. marauders
  10. marauding
  11. maraudings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maraud (page history and authors); maraud (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maraud (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); maraud (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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