[ adj ] characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding <adj.all> bands of marauding Indianspredatory warfare a raiding party
maraud \ma*raud"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Marauded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marauding}.] [F. marauder, fr. maraud vagabond, OF. marault; of uncertain origin, perh. for malault, fr. (assumed) LL. malaldus; fr. L. malus bad, ill + a suffix of German origin (cf. {Herald}). Cf. {Malice}.] To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. ``Marauding hosts.'' --Milman.
The violence started Friday night in Hyderabad, 100 miles northeast of Karachi, when marauding bands of native Sindhis sprayed gunfire in about 30 neighborhoods of Mohajirs, Indian Moslems who migrated to Pakistan after partition in 1947, witnesses said.
A marauding giant emerges in the woods, bringing death and devastation and belatedly teaching the characters the importance of responsibility and companionship.
In January, a young couple kayaking off Malibu were apparently killed by a marauding shark, possibly a great white.
In their afternoon tabloids, they read about marauding gangs and random violence.
Kandahar sits in the middle of an arid plain that offers little protection from marauding aircraft that have leveled the city's southern suburb of Mahalajat.
Later, as a teen-ager he joined a gang of marauding suburban youth. "We raised heck." They met at that mecca of radicalism and counterculture, Yale.
But Plovdiv's ramparts are coming under threat again, this time from marauding bus-borne tourists.
Horn's ranch is one of scores in Nevada where thousands of marauding deer have found green fields tempting in this drought year.
Survivors say about 60 of Kpaytuo's 1,000 residents were killed by marauding soldiers of the widely hated military of President Samuel K. Doe.
They called for neighborhood self-defense groups to protect people from marauding gunmen.
Anderson's attorney, Jon Botula, said Anderson was incited to kill by numerous viewings of the movie, which stars Malcolm McDowell as a marauding young Briton with a vacant stare who acts on his violent impulses.
The others are: _Candice Bergen and Diane English, the star and executive producer of TV's "Murphy Brown." _The "Central Park jogger," who was nearly killed by marauding youths April 19 but since has made a slow recovery.
The age-old war against marauding grasshoppers is being waged with some promising new biological weapons, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday.
They say some 600,000 people, including Muslims and Christians, were killed in the turbulent times because of civil strife and marauding bands.
The marauding computer virus unleashed last week has jolted many academics into realizing that ethical values are critical in a field where brilliant minds can turn dangerously arrogant, careless and naive.