RAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raid mean? 

• RAID (noun)
  The noun RAID has 2 senses:

1. a sudden short attack

2. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

  Familiarity information: RAID used as a noun is rare.

• RAID (verb)
  The verb RAID has 4 senses:

1. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

2. enter someone else's territory and take spoils

3. take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

4. search for something needed or desired

  Familiarity information: RAID used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden short attack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

foray; maraud; raid

Hypernyms ("raid" is a kind of...):

incursion; penetration (an attack that penetrates into enemy territory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raid"):

air attack; air raid (an attack by armed planes on a surface target)

swoop (a very rapid raid)

Derivation:

raid (search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An attempt by speculators to defraud investors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("raid" is a kind of...):

defalcation; embezzlement; misapplication; misappropriation; peculation (the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else)

Derivation:

raid (take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock)

• RAID (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they raid    ... he / she / it raids   
Past simple: raided   
Past participle: raided   
-ing form: raiding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bust; raid

Context example:

The police raided the crack house

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

assail; attack (launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

raid (a sudden short attack)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enter someone else's territory and take spoils

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

foray into; raid

Context example:

The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "raid"):

maraud (raid and rove in search of booty)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The customs agents raid the bags for drugs

Derivation:

raider (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

arrogate; assume; seize; take over; usurp (seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

raid (an attempt by speculators to defraud investors)

raider (a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Search for something needed or desired

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Our babysitter raided our refrigerator

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

search (subject to a search)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Martin counted the result of his raid a second time to make sure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a rookery which had never been raided by the hunters, and in consequence the seals were mild-tempered and at the same time unafraid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

White Fang never raided a chicken-roost again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They raided his store last night, and he and his papers are all in Portsmouth jail.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Hugh Calverley and Sir Robert Knolles had not yet returned from their raid into the marches of the Navarre, so that the English party were deprived of two of their most famous lances.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seems that William had secretly followed his two masters on the night when they made their raid upon Mr. Acton’s, and having thus got them into his power, proceeded, under threats of exposure, to levy blackmail upon them.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He procured a packing-case from the woodpile in the cellar, fitted a cover to it, and raided the scrap-iron the Silva tribe was collecting for the junkman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was only a foot and a half long, and in my superb ignorance I never dreamed that the club used ashore when raiding the rookeries measured four to five feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As lord of the marches and guardian of an exposed country-side, there was little rest for him even in times of so-called peace, and his whole life was spent in raids and outfalls upon the Brabanters, late-comers, flayers, free companions, and roving archers who wandered over his province.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)