raid > define
noun
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"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (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.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(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.
by Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.