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marauded

marauded is the simple past and past participle of maraud.

Meaning of maraud

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
  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

Questions about marauded

What is marauded the simple past and past participle of?
Marauded is the simple past and past participle of maraud.

Words near marauded in the dictionary

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

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