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单词 marauding
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 gangsmarauder noun [countable]
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