raid
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
government
hobbies
law-enforcement
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
Inflected forms:
form: raids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: raids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rade
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
pos: noun
examples: Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.
There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.
gloss: An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: An attacking movement.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: 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.
gloss: A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
pos: noun
examples: I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.
Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]
gloss: To engage in a raid against.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police raided the gambling den.
The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.
A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.
Someone has been banned from Discord for raiding a server.
The bank's funds have been raided by former execs.
gloss: To lure from another; to entice away from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To indulge oneself by taking from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I raided the fridge for snacks.
Derived words: air raid
air-raid
Baedeker raid
bear raid
corporate raid
dawn raid
panty raid
raidproof
ram raid
ram-raid
Zoom raid
counterraid
caught raiding the cookie jar
raidable
raider
ramraid
unraided
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