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单词
marauding
释义
marauding
ma‧raud‧ing
/
məˈrɔːdɪŋ
$
-ˈrɒː-
/
adjective
[only before noun]
written
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
marauding
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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