marauder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or member of a group that roams about to raid, steal, or attack

   The caravan hired guards to protect it from marauders.

From French maraudeur, meaning a raider or plunderer, based on marauder, to go about in search of plunder. English maraud and marauder entered the language with the same military-raiding sense.

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