EGAVE

raid

About 5.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
  2. noun An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
    a police raid of a narcotics factory
  3. noun An attacking movement.
  4. noun 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. noun A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
  6. noun An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
  7. verb To engage in a raid against.
    The police raided the gambling den.
  8. verb To lure from another; to entice away from.

Similar words

foray maraud mulcting bust foray into incursion razzia plunder pillage attacking

Often followed by

on was the of and in into by shelter

Word family

raided raiding raids

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