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Definitions: Maraud |
MaraudNoun1. A sudden short attack. Verb1. 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: MaraudSynonyms: foray (n), raid (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Maraud |
| English words defined with "maraud": Marauded ♦ Pickeer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "maraud": marauder. (references) |
| 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 | 夺 (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 maratona, saquear (clear out, depredate, devastate, foray, Harry, loo-table, pillage, pillar, plunderage, price, ravage, Raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack). (various references) jefui (burgle, flay, fleece, Harry, knock off, loot, mug, pillage, prey, ransack, Raven, reave, Rob, scathe, spoil), face prãdãciuni, face jafuri. (various references) мародерствовать (pillage, prowl). (various references) pustošiti (desolate, infest, raven), pljačkati (despoil, harry, loot, pillage, plunder, prey on, prey upon, reive, rob). (various references) merodear (hang about, hang around, prowl). (various references) marodera, röva (despoil, loot, pirate, plunder, rob). (various references) ปล้น (raid, raven, rifle, rob). (various references) 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) мародерствувати (pillage, prowl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | maraud. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "maraud": marauded, marauder, marauders, marauding, marauds. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 61 75 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. .- ..- -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r a u d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476784678770 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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