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Rapacious vs Marauding - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between rapacious and marauding

is that rapacious is voracious; avaricious while marauding is raiding and pillaging.

As a verb marauding is

present participle of maraud.

As a noun marauding is

raiding and pillaging.

rapacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Voracious; avaricious.
  • * 1787 , :
    • To presume a want of motives for such contests [of power between states] as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious .
  • Given to taking by force or plundering; aggressively greedy.
  • * 1910 , :
    • A Prince [...] sooner becomes hated by being rapacious and by interfering with the property and with the women of his subjects, than in any other way.
  • Subsisting off live prey.
  • * 1827 , :
    • Even the rapacious birds appeared to comprehend the nature of the ceremony, for [...] they once more began to make their airy circuits above the place [...]

    Usage notes

    * The use of this term for animals other than birds is dated.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * rapaciously * rapaciousness * rapacity

    marauding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • raiding and pillaging
    • a marauding band
  • (of an animal) killing in wanton fashion.
    • A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.
  • (of an animal) killing domestic animals.
    • The marauding lion jumped the fence and killed the goat.

    See also

    * maraud * marauder

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Raiding and pillaging.
  • * 1834 , R Thomas, The Glory Of America (page 514)
    • On the 22d, the corporation of Albany passed a vote of thanks to General Heath, for the alacrity which he had displayed in defending the northern frontiers of the state of New York against the maraudings of the enemy.