RAIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raiding mean? 

• RAIDING (adjective)
  The adjective RAIDING has 1 sense:

1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

  Familiarity information: RAIDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

Synonyms:

marauding; predatory; raiding

Context example:

a raiding party

Similar:

offensive (for the purpose of attack rather than defense)

 Context examples 

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)

I bustled about in quite housewifely fashion, procuring soothing lotions for her sunburn, raiding Wolf Larsen’s private stores for a bottle of port I knew to be there, and directing Thomas Mugridge in the preparation of the spare state-room.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)