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Definition of marauder : A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.

Synonyms:

footpad, thief, buccaneer, highwayman, freebooter, raider, despoiler, burglar, predatory animal, bandit, pirate, pillager, piranha, brigand, privateer, predator, plunderer, vulture, pirana, depredator, caribe, robber, forager

Usage examples:

• And that, I believe, was the only shot that Raffles ever fired in his whole career as a midnight marauder. - "A Thief in the Night", E. W. Hornung.
• But most stupefying of all he found the fact that this housebreaker, this armed midnight marauder, was a woman! - "The Brass Bowl", Louis Joseph Vance.
• It is even recorded that Essex ordered one of his soldiers, who was found stealing a woman's gown, to be hanged on the spot, but that, wearied by the intercession of an ecclesiastic of Cadiz, the canon Quesada, he consented at last to pardon the marauder. - "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley.