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MARAUDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marauding mean?
• MARAUDING (adjective)
The adjective MARAUDING has 1 sense:
1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Familiarity information: MARAUDING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
Synonyms:
Context example:
a raiding party
Similar:
offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)
Context examples
They are supposed to have belonged to some of the marauding Barons of Holdernesse in the Middle Ages.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I knew what all this meant, for the servants' dinner-bell was ringing at the very moment over our heads; and as I hate such encroaching people (the Jacksons are very encroaching, I have always said so: just the sort of people to get all they can), I said to the boy directly (a great lubberly fellow of ten years old, you know, who ought to be ashamed of himself), 'I'll take the boards to your father, Dick, so get you home again as fast as you can.' The boy looked very silly, and turned away without offering a word, for I believe I might speak pretty sharp; and I dare say it will cure him of coming marauding about the house for one while. I hate such greediness—so good as your father is to the family, employing the man all the year round!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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