Raid

[reɪd] or [red]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an attempt by speculators to defraud investors.

(verb.) search for something needed or desired; 'Our babysitter raided our refrigerator'.

(verb.) take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; 'T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies'.

(verb.) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; 'The police raided the crack house'.

編輯:基蒂--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

(n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

(v. t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

阿加莎手打

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Invasion, inroad, foray, irruption, hostile incursion (especially of mounted men).

整理:罗莎

解釋/意思:

n. a hostile or predatory invasion: a sudden onset: an irruption as if for assault or seizure.—v.t. to make a sudden attack.—n. Raid′er one who makes a raid.—Raid the market to derange prices by a panic.

校對:劳伦斯