raid

Meanings

Noun

• A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
• An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
• An attacking movement.
• 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.
• A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

Verb

• To engage in a raid against.
• To lure from another; to entice away from.
• To indulge oneself by taking from.

Related

Similar words

• attack, foray, incursion
• irruption

Origin

• From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English rād. road.