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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *marrijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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

(intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
a marauding band
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(intransitive) To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
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(transitive) To raid and pillage.
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The verb and adjective are more common as “marauding”.

intransitive: to move about in roving fashion looking for plunder

transitive: to raid and pillage

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-# {{label|en|intransitive}} To move about in roving fashion looking for [[plunder]].
+# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To move about in roving fashion looking for [[plunder]].
 #: ''a '''marauding''' band''
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 |passage={{...}} in one of which they met with a party of ''French'' that had been '''marauding''', and made them all prisoners at discretion.
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-# {{label|en|intransitive}} To go about [[aggressively]] or in a [[predatory]] manner.
+# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To go about [[aggressively]] or in a [[predatory]] manner.
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 |year=1770
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 |passage=A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, '''Marauding''' for a dinner.
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-# {{label|en|transitive}} To [[raid]] and [[pillage]].
+# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[raid]] and [[pillage]].
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 |year=1829