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/məˈɹɔːd/ · verb
(intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter..
a marauding band
Peace Plunder, Peace, you Rogue; no Moroding now i we'll burn, rob, demolish and murder another time together : This is a Bus'ness must be done with decency.
[…] in one of which they met with a party of French that had been marauding, and made them all prisoners at discretion.
A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.
As the tract of country they intended to maraud was far in the Moorish territories near the coast of the Mediterranean, they did not arrive until late in the following day.
Use maraud when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Maraud means (intransitive) To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter..
Common synonyms include foray, raid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a marauding band
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