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Raid   /reɪd/   Listen
Raid

noun
1.
A sudden short attack.  Synonyms: foray, maraud.
2.
An attempt by speculators to defraud investors.
verb
(past & past part. raided; pres. part. raiding)
1.
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on.  Synonym: bust.
2.
Enter someone else's territory and take spoils.  Synonym: foray into.
3.
Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock.
4.
Search for something needed or desired.



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"Raid" Quotes from Famous Books



... about Motana, the son of the great War Chief. The mountain vigil, the wooing and winning of Naida, the raid of Yaklus and his warriors, the rescue of the captured Naida, and the final victory, celebrated by ceremonial dances, are all described. The action is rapid and the story is told in the direct, simple style of the true epic. Illustrated with thirty full-page ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... pallor appeared in the cheeks of the right-hand man, and he spoke an order, so that a contract for leaving the pavement of a certain city street exactly as it was went elsewhere. The defrauded contractor swore very bitterly, and reduced the salary of his right-hand man. This one caused a raid of police to ascend into the disorderly house of his. This one in turn punished his right-hand man; until finally the lowest of all in the scale, save only Mr. Obloski, remarked to the latter, pressing for ...
— IT and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

... the trumpet's lip. Snatching a few brief moments, CONSTANTINE, Out of my business morning—eight to nine, Composing epic poems; nine to one, Consolidating our position in the sun (Sweet Alexandrine!), breakfast, bath and post, A raid or two on the Dalmatian coast, Speeches, parades and promulgating laws Which, being published to my followers, cause Loud cries of "Author!" and sustained applause; Such is the round of toil that leaves not limp Fiume's favoured Pontifex et Imp.— I ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 • Various

... fancy these hill tribes are broken up into a very large number of small villages in isolated valleys, only uniting when the order of the chief calls upon them to defend the mountains against an invader, or to make a simultaneous raid upon the plains." ...
— The Young Carthaginian - A Story of The Times of Hannibal • G.A. Henty

... shape of an invasion from Rhodesia on our Western frontiers, a raid planned by soldiers of a ...
— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen


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