'RAID' definitions:
Definition of 'raid'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
An attempt by speculators to defraud investors
verb
Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house" [syn: raid, bust]
verb
Enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" [syn: foray into, raid]
verb
Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
verb
Search for something needed or desired; "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"
Definition of 'Raid'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Raid'
From: GCIDE
- Raid \Raid\ (r[=a]d), n. [Icel. rei[eth] a riding, raid; akin to E. road. See Road a way.]
- 1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray. [1913 Webster]
- Marauding chief! his sole delight The moonlight raid, the morning fight. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- There are permanent conquests, temporary occupations, and occasional raids. --H. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Note: A Scottish word which came into common use in the United States during the Civil War, and was soon extended in its application. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'raid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air attack,
- air raid,
- air strike,
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- bear raid,
- blitz,
- board,
- boarding,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- bull raid,
- bust,
- corner,
- corner in,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- descend upon,
- despoil,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- devastate,
- direption,
- escalade,
- expedition,
- fire raid,
- fleece,
- forage,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freeboot,
- freebooting,
- gut,
- harass,
- harry,
- incursion,
- inroad,
- inundate,
- invade,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- loot,
- looting,
- make a raid,
- make an inroad,
- manipulation,
- maraud,
- marauding,
- monopoly,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- overrun,
- overswarm,
- overwhelm,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- pounce upon,
- prey on,
- raiding,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- raven,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reive,
- reiving,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rigging,
- rob,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sally,
- saturation raid,
- scale,
- scale the walls,
- scaling,
- set upon,
- shuttle raid,
- sortie,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoliate,
- spoliation,
- storm,
- strip,
- surprise attack,
- sweep,
- swoop down on,
- swoop down upon,
- take by storm,
- wash sale,
- washing,
- waste
Acronyms for 'RAID'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Redundant Array of Independent / Inexpensive Disks (HDD, RAID)