Raid
[reɪd] or [red]
Definition
(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'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Invasion, inroad, foray, irruption, hostile incursion (especially of mounted men).
Typist: Rosa
Definition
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.
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Examples
- We got it in the last serious raid. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Happily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This raid was of great importance, for Grierson had attracted the attention of the enemy from the main movement against Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That was the last raid of Pablo, Anselmo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On this day Wilson returned from his raid upon the Virginia Central Railroad, having damaged it considerably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By crossing above, Lee is cut off from all chance of ignoring Richmond and going north on a raid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Germans made a series of Zeppelin, and later of aeroplane, raids upon Paris and the east of England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There would be no more killing in France, no more air raids--and things would get better. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When night came, many of the main streets, which had been kept in darkness for many months because of the air raids, were brightly lit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Occasionally the First Born themselves make raids upon the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Cavalry raids were also made by Generals McCook, Garrard, and Stoneman, to cut the remaining Railroad communication with Atlanta. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They were in Brussels, they had overrun Savoy, they had raided to Mayence; they had seized the Scheldt from Holland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is the level of culture at which Sherman Anti-Trust acts are passed, brothels are raided, and labor agitators are thrown into jail. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They raided Persia, and threatened Constantinople with a great fleet of small craft (in 865, 904, 941, and 1043). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Later on the east coast was raided and settled by Northmen, but we do not know to what extent they altered the racial quality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As those died in the night when we raided Otero, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They carried their raiding right down the Italian peninsula, devastating all Etruria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For the most part this was a mere raiding of the borders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They went thus far north because the Sultan of Egypt was raiding the Ilkhan domains at this time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their great raiding period was between 900 and 950. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were presently raiding the shores of Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A force of seven hundred men had come out from Mecca to convoy home another caravan, and they encountered a large raiding party of three hundred. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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