Marauding dictionary definition

marauding

Verb

Adjective

(comparative more marauding, superlative most marauding)

raiding and pillaging
a marauding band
(of an animal) killing in wanton fashion.
A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.
(of an animal) killing domestic animals.
The marauding lion jumped the fence and killed the goat.

Noun

(plural maraudings)

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In 1774 Sin-byu-shin was engaged in reducing the marauding tribes.
Irish sources represent him as constantly engaged in marauding expeditions oversea, and it was doubtless on one of these that St Patrick was taken captive.
These Bangala are not to be confused with the Bangala of the Kwango, also cannibals, who in marauding bands under leaders styled Jaga were devastating the country in the days of the early Portuguese settlements in the Congo regions.
Here, in October 1793, in his Etowah campaign, John Sevier, with militia from Tennessee, crushed a party of marauding Indians; the battle is commemorated by a monument in Myrtle Hill cemetery.
On more than one occasion the newly-founded town was captured, sacked and destroyed by marauding bands of Welshmen, notably in 1152; but on each occasion the place was rebuilt and refortified by the earls-palatine of Pembroke, who greatly favoured this important settlement.

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