Thesaurus results for MARAUD

maraud

verb

mə-ˈrȯd

as in to plunder

to search through with the intent of committing robbery just for kicks, bored teenagers marauded neighborhood houses while their owners were away

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Recent Examples of maraud That’s all fine and good for shows that might appeal to a younger, less hard-drinking crowd, but what about the midnight marauding EDM audience, who are used to, and expect, the party to go all night long? —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023 In other parts of the country, marauding gunmen known locally as bandits have carried out mass kidnappings mostly for ransom. —

Nimi Princewill, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023 This much is undisputed: hundreds of rally attendees—some armed with metal flagpoles, baseball bats, pepper spray and stun guns—smashed their way into the Capitol building and loitered in the halls, splintering off to rummage through offices or maraud an empty chamber of Congress. —

Hawa Allan, Time, 7 Jan. 2022 As truly violent criminals maraud and run rampant through New York City, this DA exhibits zero interest in law-enforcement and prosecution. —

NBC News, 31 Dec. 2020 See all Example Sentences for maraud

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Otto Frank requested that the spaces, plundered by the Nazis, remain vacant, their barrenness attesting to profound loss.

— Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
In Charleston, Loyalists were desperate for skilled horsemen who could work as scouts and raiders, plundering Patriot homes for supplies.

— Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024