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ma·raud·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. marauding, predatory, raidingadjective

    characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

    "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

Wiktionary

  1. maraudingadjective

    raiding and pillaging

    a marauding band

  2. maraudingadjective

    killing in wanton fashion.

    A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.

  3. maraudingadjective

    killing domestic animals.

    The marauding lion jumped the fence and killed the goat.

ChatGPT

  1. marauding

    Marauding refers to the act of roaming or wandering around in search of something to steal or people to attack. It typically implies aggressive, destructive, or predatory behavior, often associated with bandits, pirates, or animals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Marauding

    of Maraud

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. marauding

    Is irregular plunder or violence offered to the inhabitants of a country by the individuals of an army. In all armies where discipline is maintained, marauding is, at least professedly, punished by death; the provost-marshal having power to inflict that penalty summarily on all offenders taken in the act. Marauding is also applied to plundering at sea; as, the Barbary corsairs are systematic marauders.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of marauding in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of marauding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of marauding in a Sentence

  1. Chris Cuomo:

    You can build a physical barrier. But why say its a cure-all to keep back this demonized group of people, like this marauding horde that doesnt exist. [Trump] created all of this. Its all bogus.

  2. Nikolai Kozitsyn:

    It has had a positive effect, we have no marauding, no burglaries or car-jacking.

  3. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

    So long as there are large numbers of pretty desperate migrants marauding around the area there will always be a threat to the tunnel's security.

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