Attacks and Raid

noun

• A sudden short attack.
  • synonyms: foray, maraud
• An attempt by speculators to defraud investors.

verb

• Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on.
  • usage: "The police raided the crack house"
  • synonyms: bust
• Enter someone else's territory and take spoils.
  • usage: "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
  • synonyms: foray into
• Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock.
  • usage: "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
• Search for something needed or desired.
  • usage: "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"

• (n.) A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
• (v.t.) To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
• (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.

(DoD) An operation to temporarily seize an area in order to secure information, confuse an adversary, capture personnel or equipment, or to destroy a capability. It ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the assigned mission.