raid

Meaning

1. A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
3. An attacking movement.
4. An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
5. A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

attack

foray into

encroach upon

cut into

round-up

punitive expedition

sudden attack

step into

assult

bull through

intrude on

lace into

lash out

obtrude upon

crack

war against

attact

move in on

edge up

shoulder in

distrubance

make war upon

shot stroke

slave-snatcher

agresser

trench-raid

edge in

explosive charge

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪd/

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

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