Meaning & use
Marauder
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A person or group that roams around in search of things to steal, plunder, or attack.
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The village hired guards to protect against marauders raiding the harvest.
Historians describe the pirates as marauders who terrorized coastal towns for decades.
A note on using this word
This entry corrects the common misspelling 'maurader'; it derives from the French 'marauder,' meaning to roam in search of plunder.
Words with a similar meaning
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