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marauding

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verb

present participle of maraud
as in pillaging
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 Synonyms for marauding
Noun
  • What To Know In a January 13 robbery, thieves cut an air brake hose on a BNSF freight train in Arizona.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • For his role in the killing, Rolling Stone reports that Corey Walker pleaded guilty to home invasion robbery with a gun, gang enhancement, and voluntary manslaughter.
    Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Dallas sacking Washington’s quarterbacks six times — Daniels four times — on Sunday upped the Commanders’ allowed sacks total to 22 over the last five games.
    Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For that reason, the Abraham Accords lie in tatters - a despoliation very deliberately aimed at by Iran and Hamas via October 7.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Landscape exists to register ideas, like dispossession or despoliation, but not feelings.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.
    Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Marauding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marauding. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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