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Definition of raid : 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.
3. To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.

Synonyms:

wear, incursion, arrest, fall apart, foray into, inroad, roundup, rupture, burst, sweep, overrun, snap, wear out, break, tear, seizure, capture, enter, maraud, bust

onslaught, fight, tirade, furor, sortie, assail, harry, battle, charge, lunge, invade, fury, attack, bombard, flay, slash, aggression, violence, war, storm, offense, spasm, foray, riot, invasion, combat, batter, hit, pound, scathe, warfare, violate, thrust, scorch, savage, rape, barrage, hammer, scarify, lash, assault, bombardment, outbreak, strike, bloodshed, trounce, siege, frenzy

Usage examples:

• " At least I have the message which warned Brunell of your raid upon his shop. - "The Crevice", William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander.
• We don't raid our own planet or our own people. - "Space Viking", Henry Beam Piper.
• He looked on the raid as a bit of a failure, clearly. - "Letters from France", C. E. W. Bean.