raid
verb/reɪd/
/reɪd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they raid | /reɪd/ /reɪd/ |
| he / she / it raids | /reɪdz/ /reɪdz/ |
| past simple raided | /ˈreɪdɪd/ /ˈreɪdɪd/ |
| past participle raided | /ˈreɪdɪd/ /ˈreɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form raiding | /ˈreɪdɪŋ/ /ˈreɪdɪŋ/ |
- raid something (of police) to visit a person or place without warning to look for criminals, illegal goods, drugs, etc.
- The house was raided in the early hours.
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- raid something (of soldiers, fighting planes, etc.) to attack a place without warning
- Villages along the border are regularly raided.
- a raiding party (= a group of soldiers, etc. that attack a place)
- raid something to enter a place, usually using force, and steal from it synonym plunder, ransack
- Many treasures were lost when the tombs were raided in the last century.
- Sales staff were forced to lie on the floor when a gang raided a jewellery store last night.
- (humorous) I caught him raiding the fridge again (= taking food from it).
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun): Scots variant of road in the early senses ‘journey on horseback’, ‘foray’. The noun became rare from the end of the 16th cent. but was revived by Sir Walter Scott; the verb dates from the mid 19th cent.
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