raid

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noun

ˈrād

Synonyms of raid next

: a hostile or predatory incursion

: a surprise attack by a small force

: a brief foray outside one's usual sphere

: a sudden invasion by officers of the law

: a daring operation against a competitor

: the recruiting of personnel (such as faculty, executives, or athletes) from competing organizations

: the act of mulcting public money

: an attempt by professional operators to depress stock prices by concerted selling

raid

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verb

raided; raiding; raids

intransitive verb

: to conduct or take part in a raid

transitive verb

: to make a raid on

Example Sentences

Noun They launched a raid against the enemy. Weapons were also seized during the drug raid. They caught five smugglers in the raid. Verb The village was raided often by neighboring tribes. Police raided the house and found drugs. Federal agents raided the warehouse, seizing stolen property and arresting five smugglers. She raided her sister's closet to find something to wear to the party. See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Anis Naccache, a former pro-Palestinian militant who participated in the 1975 OPEC raid, died Monday in Syria at age 69 after battling the coronavirus. —

Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 23 Feb. 2021 In June 1965, Davis led a nearly 19-hour raid northeast of Saigon. —

CBS News, 22 Feb. 2021 On May 26, Mason led a raid on two Pequot villages in Mystic, killing hundreds of men, women and children. —

Susan Dunne, courant.com, 16 Nov. 2020 Trump has also pointed to the U.S. military’s successful raid killing Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in October 2019 as well as the near-total destruction of ISIS’s physical caliphate, which had been established after President Barack Obama's premature withdrawal from Iraq. —

Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, 13 Nov. 2020 In one such video, protesters surround Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, and chant about Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a no-knock raid in Louisville. —

Derek Wallbank, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020 In a few cases the contacts had heard rumors about the police raid and wanted nothing to do with her. —

Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020 The movement stoked by the police raid in Greenwich Village soon spread to cities across the country. —

Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 26 June 2020 Hankison is one of three officers who have been on administrative reassignment while an investigation is conducted into the death of Taylor, 26, an African American emergency-room technician who was killed by police during a raid at her Louisville home on March 13. —

NBC News, 10 June 2020

Verb

About two weeks later, F.B.I. agents obtained search warrants to raid the homes of Mr. O’Keefe and two of his operatives: Mr. Meads and Eric Cochran, both of whom left the organization after the diary project. —

New York Times, 20 Mar. 2022 At the Kimpton Cardinal (doubles from $190), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, even pets can raid the mini-bars, which include bottles of nonalcoholic Bowser Beer for dogs. —

Jancee Dunn, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2021 Opposition leaders are frequently raided by investigating agencies and bogged down in court cases. —

Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 21 June 2023 The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are currently being raided by French judicial police. —

Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 June 2023 Maclean is the owner of a store in Peabody, Massachusetts called Kat’s Creepy Creations specializing in bone art and other oddities that the FBI raided in March, according to the indictment. —

Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023 The indictment came about only because the government thought Mr. Trump took records that didn’t belong to him, and the government raided his house to find any such records. —

Michael Bekesha, WSJ, 13 June 2023 Israeli security forces regularly raid Palestinian cities such as Jenin, Nablus and Jericho, but an incursion into Ramallah on this scale is extremely unusual. —

CNN, 8 June 2023 Akabas said other options - such as slowing payments or raiding trust funds - would entail other risks. —

Jeff Stein, Rachel Siegel and Tony Romm, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023 See More

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