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marauding

A poetic (i.e., non-medical) term for raiding, looting, plundering, taking by force.

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Among those fleeing the violence was 16-year-old Shukria Ahmed-Nur who told how marauding thugs terrorised the streets near where she lived.

Flight from terror

It is often viewed as an entomological take on the Wilis of Giselle, but one wonders if there isn't a shadow subject: the HUAC's marauding MeCarthyites and their hunted victims.

The long way time: a new Jerome Robbins biography explores why happiness eluded him

They told him that anti-social crime by marauding bands of youngsters was the biggest problem in many areas.

TRAP YOBS BY MOBILE

In the outdoor industry, some enterprising vendors made a handsome profit selling "Y2K Survival Kits," packed with everything one would need to fend off the hordes of marauding refugees that survived the resulting Armageddon.

An ounce of prevention

The currants and the blueberries are also the focus of my marauding wildlife.

Wire cages can do more than just house animals

Young Mayas (Dalia Hernandez, Rudy Youngblood) flee the marauding of their village in the brutal ``Apocalypto.

A SLICE OF BLOODY, GORY MAYAN LIFE IN `APOCALYPTO'

Women and children are the main victims, left behind with few resources, vulnerable to marauding soldiers.

Ernst, Kathleen. Hearts of stone

VALIANT knight Tristan has devoted his life to Lord Marke, the man who saved his life as a child from marauding Irish hordes under the command of King Donnchadh.

DVDReview; TRISTAN & ISOLDE (12)

Though scorned as marauding northern savages, and well-documented for their ruthless and brutal raids for riches and power, the Vikings were also expert shipbuilders, cunning merchants, skilled artisans, and daring colonizers of distant lands.

The Vikings

Like most beekeepers these days, Keeley doses his hives with a variety of treatments to keep the bees free of affliction: disease, mites and invasions by marauding animals such as skunks.

Silent spring: what's happening to honey bees?

A new study proposes scaring marauding gangs of kangaroos away from farms and other private property by playing recordings of their own thumping feet.

Civilization threatened by kangaroos

She already had a gun in hand, one that she used to stop marauding coyotes from attacking her dogs when she let them outside.