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Raiding

adjective

Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding. Synonyms: marauding, predatory. "Predatory warfare" , "A raiding party"

Raid

verb

(past & past part. raided; pres. part. raiding)

Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on. Synonym: bust.

Enter someone else's territory and take spoils. Synonym: foray into.

Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock.

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"Raiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... discretion and outside of responsibility, and always, at every wild adventure, they instructed their dupes that each man took his life in his hand on every incursion into the north. So Beale took his, raiding on the great lakes. So Kennedy took his, on a midnight bonfire-tramp into the metropolis. So took the St. Albans raiders their lives in their palms, dashing into a peaceful town. And if these agents entertained Wilkes Booth's suggestion at all they plainly told him that he carried ...

— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend

... that raiding party to-night," Tom continued, lowering his voice to a whisper, since it was supposed to be a military secret, and not ...

— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach

... "Well done, then! Our raiding party did good work, though they did have a desperate fight afterwards to get through the Boer ...

— A Dash from Diamond City • George Manville Fenn

... his veins. Every man in the regiment could ride a broken horse; but, for many of them their attainments stopped there, and broken horses were few and far between. With the increasing need of troopers for the guerrilla raiding into which the war was degenerating, with the inevitable losses of a long campaign, mounts of any kind were scarce. Nevertheless, consternation had descended upon the camp, one day, when three hundred kicking, squealing American bronchos had been detrained and placed at their service. ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

... "It's Big Reuben raiding the pig-pen again! Can't you hear 'em squealing? Come on at once! Bring the eight-bore, Joe; and you, Phil, get the torch and the revolver. Quick; or he'll kill ...

— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp

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