maraud

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

maraud
    n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: {foray}, {raid}, {maraud}]
    v 1: raid and rove in search of booty; "marauding rebels overran
         the countryside"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

maraud \ma*raud"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Marauded}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Marauding}.] [F. marauder, fr. maraud vagabond, OF.
   marault; of uncertain origin, perh. for malault, fr.
   (assumed) LL. malaldus; fr. L. malus bad, ill + a suffix of
   German origin (cf. {Herald}). Cf. {Malice}.]
   To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty;
   to plunder. "Marauding hosts." --Milman.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maraud \Ma*raud"\, n.
   An excursion for plundering.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

24 Moby Thesaurus words for "maraud":
      depredate, despoil, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gut, harass,
      harry, loot, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, ransack, ravage,
      raven, ravish, reive, rifle, sack, spoil, spoliate, sweep

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