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1. Moving around attacking, plundering or pillaging
   "a pack of marauding mink are kicking up a stink";
   - predatory, raiding

1. Raiding and pillaging.
   "Set during the last year of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's brutal regime, Waiting exposes the fear and courage of a small, close-knit community uncertain of what the edicts of a madman and the marauding of his uncontrollable army will bring with each coming day."

1. Raid and rove in search of booty
   "marauding rebels overran the countryside"

See also: offensive

Type of: foray into, licence [Brit, Cdn], license [N. Amer], raid