Synonyms for raid
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1. raidnoun

   Synonyms:
   attack, incursion, foray

2. raidnoun

   A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

   Synonyms:
   incursion, attack, foray

3. raidnoun

   To steal from; pillage

   Synonyms:
   attack, foray, incursion

4. raidnoun

   A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

   Synonyms:
   attack, foray, incursion

5. raidverb

   To indulge oneself by taking from

   Synonyms:
   foray, incursion, attack

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1. foray, raid, maraudnoun

   a sudden short attack

   Synonyms:
   maraud, foray

2. raidverb

   an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

   Synonyms:
   maraud, foray

3. raid, bustverb

   search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

   "The police raided the crack house"

   Synonyms:
   tear, rupture, bust, wear, wear out, foray into, snap, break, fall apart, burst

4. foray into, raidverb

   enter someone else's territory and take spoils

   "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"

   Synonyms:
   foray into, bust

5. raidverb

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

   "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"

   Synonyms:
   foray into, bust

6. raidverb

   search for something needed or desired

   "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"

   Synonyms:
   foray into, bust

Matched Categories

1. • Penetration
   • Search
   • Take Over

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. raidnoun

   Synonyms:
   invasion, inroad, foray, irruption, hostile incursion (especially of mounted men)

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1. raidnoun

   Synonyms:
   foray, incursion

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "raid":

   incursion, raids, attack, raiding, strike, descent

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1. Carl Mueller:

   She was held in many prisons, she was held in solitary confinement. She was tortured. She was intimidated. She was ultimately raped by al-Baghdadi himself. The Obama administration was criticized over a reported 2015 rescue mission that targetedfour prisoners heldat a makeshift ISIS prison. By the time U.S. commandos stormed the compound, the hostages were already gone. Some relatives and people who worked on the raid blamed the White House for not acting swiftly enough on giving the mission a green light. Specific intelligence had emerged in late Mayproviding officials with the hostages likely location -- including a building, sources told Fox News at the time. The intelligence was described as being.

2. Reinosuke Ishigaki:

   During World War II, we hid in air raid shelters wearing masks when we heard the sirens, if a war breaks out with North Korea, Japan will be targeted.

3. Michael Bennet:

   President Trump's selfish decision to raid military construction funding is a new low in his ridiculous pursuit of a campaign promise. These projects, including the Space Control Facility at Peterson Air Force Base, were identified by the Department of Defense and the Trump Administration as critical to our military readiness. Taking money from operational priorities to pay for a wasteful and ineffective wall is grossly irresponsible and undermines our national security.

4. Theo Bertram:

   Through our investigations, we learned that groups operating on the dark web made plans to raid social media platforms including TikTok, in order to spread the video across the internet, what we saw was a group of users who were repeatedly attempting to upload the video to our platform.

5. Christopher Stokes:

   The main hospital building, where medical personnel were caring for patients, was repeatedly and very precisely hit during each aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched.