raid
/ɹeɪd/
raid noun: a quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
Noun (1)
raid (plural raids)
- A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
- Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC...
- There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315
- An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
- a police raid of a narcotics factory
- a raid of contractors on the public treasury
- Synonyms:
- irruption
- An attacking movement.
- 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.2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport
- 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.
- 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.2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2017
- Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2017
- A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
- An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
- 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.2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2024, r/discordapp
- 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 [...]2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit, r/guilded
Verb
raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)
Noun (2) capitalized: RAID
RAID
- Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.
- Initialism of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
raid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
raid in Hindi
- attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering
- हमला hamlā
raid in Tamil
- ரெய்டு
raid in Marathi
- छापामारी
raid in Urdu
- attack for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering
- حَمْلَہ hamla
More languagesFewer languages
- raid in Malayalam
- റെയ്ഡ്, റെയ്ഡ് ചെയ്യാൻ, റെയ്ഡ് ചെയ്യാനായി
- raid in Punjabi
- ਛਾਪੇਮਾਰੀ, ਛਾਪਾ ਮਾਰਨਾ
- raid in Gujarati
- દરોડા, દરોડો, દરોડા પાડવા માટે
- raid in Odia
- ଚଢ଼ାଉ, ଚଢାଉ, ଚଢ଼ଉ କରିବା
- raid in Tagalog
- pagsalakay, salakay, sumalakay, salakayin
- raid in Arabic
- مُدَاهَمَة mudāhama, أَغَارَ ʔaḡāra, غَارَة ḡāra, غَزْوَة ḡazwa
- raid in Malay
- serbuan
- raid in Indonesian
- penggerebekan, razia
Examples of raid in a sentence
- 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.
Synonyms of raid
Forms of raid
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | raids |
| alternative Scotland | rade |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | raids |
| present participle | raiding |
| past participle | raided |
| past | raided |
Origin of raid
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).
Words formed from raid
Phrases with raid
Words that rhyme with raid
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abraid
- blockade
- cade
- fade
- glade
- upbraid
- abrade
- crusade
- esplanade
- invade
- lade
- unlaid
- upgrade
- brigade
- brocade
- cavalcade
- colonnade
- displayed
- glissade
- grenade
- paid
- palisade
- unlade
- afraid
- ambuscade
- arcade
- corrade
- degrade
- enfilade
- evade
- jade
- lemonade
- made
- maid
- persuade
- pomade
- spade
- unmade
- aide
- cannonade
- carbonade
- carronade
- clade
- cockade
- Dade
- decayed
- dragonnade
- embayed
Questions about raid
- What does raid mean?
- Raid means a quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
- What is raid in Hindi?
- Raid in Hindi is हमला (hamlā). See Raid meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use raid in a sentence?
- A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.
- What part of speech is raid?
- Raid can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce raid?
- Raid is pronounced /ɹeɪd/.
- What is the plural of raid?
- The plural of raid is raids.
Words near raid in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: raid (page history and authors); RAID (page history and authors); raid (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raid (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raid (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raid (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raid (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raid (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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