maraud
Meaning
Verb
- To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
- To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
- To raid and pillage.
Origin
- From French marauder, derivative of maraud, from Middle French maraud, from Old French *marault, from marir, marrir, from Frankish *marrijan, from Proto-Germanic *marzijanฤ , from Proto-Indo-European *mers-, + Old French suffix -ault, -aud. Cognate with Old High German marrjan, marren, Old Saxon merrian, Gothic ๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐พ๐ฐ๐ฝ. Related to mar.
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