raid

1 a sudden short attack [syn: foray, maraud]

2 an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

1 search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house" [syn: bust]

2 enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" [syn: foray into]

3 take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"

4 search for something needed or desired; "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"

see RAID

English

Etymology

From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English rád ( > English road).

Pronunciation

• /reɪd/
• Rhymes with: -eɪd

Noun

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

Synonyms

• italbrac hostile or predatory incursion: attack, foray, incursion

Verb

1. To engage in a raid.
2. To steal from; pillage
3. To lure from another; to entice away from
4. To indulge oneself by taking from

Anagrams

• arid

Scots

Etymology

From (a Northern form of) Old English rád ‘riding, road’.

Pronunciation

/red/

Noun

1. raid

Raid or RAID may refer to:

• Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks, or RAID, a system of multiple hard drives for sharing or replicating data.
• Rights & Accountability in Development, or RAID, a UK-based NGO which seeks to promote corporate accountability, fair investment and good governance
• R.A.I.D., Radically Advanced Ideas in Destruction, a splinter group of Advanced Idea Mechanics from Marvel Comics
• Raid (insecticide), a consumer insecticide marketed by S.C. Johnson & son
• Raid (military), a sudden attack behind an enemy's lines without the intention of holding ground
• Raid (gaming), a type of mission in a video game where a very large number of people combine forces to defeat a boss
• Dawn raid, a police action involving the entering of a house with the intent to capture personnel or evidence, which takes place early in the morning
• Corporate raid, a type of hostile takeover in business
• Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion, a counter-terrorist unit of the French National Police
• Panty raid, a prankish raid by male college students on the living quarters of female students to steal panties as trophies
• Raid Script, a scripting language for the NewsRaider software to scrape websites into TomeRaider files
• "Raid," a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy
• Raid (band), a Tennessee based band
• Raid, a track on Audience (band) second album Friends Friends Friend
• Raid (movie), made in 1991 and directed by K. S. Gopalakrishnan

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