单词	marauder
释义	maraudingma‧raud‧ing /məˈrɔːdɪŋ $ -ˈrɒː-/ adjective [only before noun] written Word Origin WORD ORIGINmarauding Origin: 1600-1700 French marauder, from maraud ‘homeless person who travels around’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A woman was left for dead in Central Park by a marauding gang of youths. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS If marauding gulls appear, the aunties sound an alarm and the young cluster tightly around them. Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike. Major routes were cart-tracks and marauding bandits and unscrupulous innkeepers thought nothing of robbery and murder. Red Deer Commission stalkers have been helping estate staff in the Angus glens pick off marauding deer destroying farmlands. She suddenly saw herself and her comrades not as prophets but as a howling and marauding mob. The herd solves this problem by forming a defensive circle when marauding wolves attack. These refugees fell prey to marauding gangs, even to troopers, or to one another. Transported to this bleak planet only to be confronted by a marauding gang of giant tortoises. a marauding person or animal moves around looking for something to destroy or kill:  marauding street gangs—marauder noun [countable]
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