Meaning

(military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle..

Definitions by Sense

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
2. (law enforcement) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
3. (sports) An attacking movement.
4. (Internet slang) 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. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
6. (social media) An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
7. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.
8. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.

Example Sentences

Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

a police raid of a narcotics factory

a raid of contractors on the public treasury

For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.

Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.

Word Forms

• raids
• rade
• raiding
• raided

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Use raid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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