maraud
Noun
- a sudden short attack
Verb
Verb Forms: marauded, marauding, marauds
- To roam in search of plunder; to raid and pillage.
- raid and rove in search of booty
- "marauding rebels overran the countryside"
- To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
- To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
- To raid and pillage.
Examples
- a marauding band
- His strategy was to MARAUD the board, snatching up every bonus square.
Origin / Etymology
From French marauder, derivative of maraud (“rogue, vagabond”), from Middle French maraud (“rascal”), from Old French *marault (“beggar, vagabond”), from marir, marrir (“to trouble, stray, lose ones way, be lost”), from Frankish *marʀijan (“to neglect, hinder”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to neglect, hinder, spoil”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to trouble, confuse, ignore, forget”), + 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.
Scrabble Score: 9
maraud: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmaraud: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
maraud: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary