Maraud

  

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Maraud

Definitions: Maraud

Maraud

Noun

1. A sudden short attack.

Verb

1. Raid and rove in search of booty; "marauding rebels overran the countryside".

2. Search for plunder.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "maraud" was first used: 1711. (references)



Synonyms: Maraud

Synonyms: foray (n), raid (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Maraud

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Maraud

English words defined with "maraud": MaraudedPickeer. (references)
Etymologies containing "maraud": marauder. (references)

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Modern Translations: Maraud

Language Translations for "maraud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, Harry, hijack, loot, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نهب (despoilment, flay, harrow, loot, looting, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, raid, ransack, rapine, ravage, rifle, rip off, robbery, sack, sacking, spoil, spoliation, stole, strip), ‏غزا (foray, infest, invade, overrun), ‏سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, skin, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), ‏طاف و يغزو طمعا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мародерствувам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Marauded, marauding, Plunder, Plundered, Plundering). (various references)

   

Czech

  

loupit (loot, plunder). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چپاول کردن (Ransack), نهب وغارت کردن , غارت کردن (Gut, Harrow, Harry, Pillage, Plunder, Ransack, Ravage, Raven, Reave, Spoil, Spoliate), دله دزدی یاتلاش کردن , بقصدغارت حمله کردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ryöstää (abduct, kidnap, loot, mug, pillage, plunder, rob, sack). (various references)

   

French

  

marauder. (various references)

   

German

  

plündern (despoil, foray, Harry, loot, looting, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, Rob, sack, spoilt, strip, to despoil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λεηλατώ (despoil, foray, freeboot, loot, overrun, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rummage, sack). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לש"ו" (pillage, plunder, sack), לעשוק (exploit, maltreat, oppress, subdue, subjugate), לחמוס (destroy, usurp), ל'זול (loot, plunder, steal), לבזוז (loot, pillage, plunder, sack, spoil). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

portyázik (to crawl, to maraud, to prowl, to raid), fosztogat (foray, loot, pillage, Raven, to forage, to foray, to hijack, to loot, to maraud, to pilfer, to pill, to raid, to rifle). (various references)

   

Italian

  

saccheggiare (despoil, harry, loot, pillage, plunder, prey, ransack, sack). (various references)

   

Manx

  

craghey (depredate, filibuster, massacre, overrun, pillage, pirate, plunder, ravage, ravish, ruin, scoop, spoil). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

araudmay

   

Portuguese

  

maratona, saquear (clear out, depredate, devastate, foray, Harry, loo-table, pillage, pillar, plunderage, price, ravage, Raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe, spoil), face prãdãciuni, face jafuri. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мародерствовать (pillage, prowl). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pustošiti (desolate, infest, raven), pljačkati (despoil, harry, loot, pillage, plunder, prey on, prey upon, reive, rob). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

merodear (hang about, hang around, prowl). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

marodera, röva (despoil, loot, pirate, plunder, rob). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปล้น (raid, raven, rifle, rob). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yağmalamak (despoil, forage, foray, Harry, loot, pillage, pirate, pluck, plunder, prey on, prey upon, put to the sack, Raven, reave, sack, spoliate, sweep down on), çapulculuk etmek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

мародерствувати (pillage, prowl). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Maraud

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Middle French1400-1600

maraud. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Maraud

Derivations

Words beginning with "maraud": marauded, marauder, marauders, marauding, marauds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Maraud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amhadu, ataud, Barraud, Ma'afu, mabalub, Mabrouk, Macraild, maerad, Malaud, Maradi, Maraldi, maraude, Maread, mareu, Maroua, Marrad, Marsaud, Marudi, Matrouh, mauraud, Mavrud, meraud, Merbau, migawd, miraid, murad, Muraour, muraud, Nadaud, Narodu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Maraud

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-r-u"

-1 letter: damar, drama, mudra.

-2 letters: arum, aura, dram, drum, duma, dura, maar, maud, mura.

-3 letters: ama, amu, arm, dam, mad, mar, mud, rad, ram, rum, urd.

-4 letters: aa, ad, am, ar, ma, mu, um.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-r-u"
 

+1 letter: marauds.

 

+2 letters: adumbral, alarumed, cardamum, marauded, marauder.

 

+3 letters: admeasure, adumbrate, armatured, audiogram, caldarium, cardamums, docudrama, dramaturg, guardsman, marauders, marauding, maturated.

 

+4 letters: admeasured, admeasures, adumbrated, adumbrates, ambuscader, anadromous, audiograms, barramunda, barramundi, docudramas, dramaturge, dramaturgs, dramaturgy, gradualism, laundromat, laundryman, mandibular, masquerade, panjandrum, parapodium, undramatic.

 

+5 letters: admeasuring, adumbrating, adumbration, adumbrative, ambuscaders, barramundas, barramundis, candelabrum, catadromous, dramaturges, dramaturgic, draughtsman, gradualisms, laundromats, liquidambar, maquiladora, masqueraded, masquerader, masquerades, masturbated, panjandrums, traumatised, traumatized, unearmarked, vanguardism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Maraud


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 72 61 75 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    .-.    .-    ..-    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#117 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0061 0075 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476784678770

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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