raid

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A surprise attack by a small armed force.
2. n. A sudden forcible entry into a place by police: a raid on a gambling den.
3. n. An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.
4. n. A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.
5. n. An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.
6. n. An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.
7. v. To make a raid on.
8. v. To conduct a raid or participate in one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A hostile or predatory incursion; especially, an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a swooping assault for injury or plunder; a foray.
2. n. Hence A sudden onset in general; an irruption for or as if for assault or seizure; a descent made in an unexpected or undesired manner: as, a police raid upon a gambling-house.
3. To go upon a raid; engage in a sudden hostile or disturbing incursion, foray, or descent.
4. To make a raid or hostile attack upon; encroach upon by foray or incursion.
5. Hence To attack in any way; affect injuriously by sudden or covert assault or invasion of any kind: as, to raid a gambling-house.

Wiktionary

1. n. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
2. 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.
3. n. online gaming A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
4. n. sports An attacking movement.
5. v. To engage in a raid.
6. v. To steal from; pillage
7. v. To lure from another; to entice away from
8. v. To indulge oneself by taking from

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
2. n. Colloq. U. S. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering
3. v. To make a raid upon or into.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. search for something needed or desired
2. n. a sudden short attack
3. n. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
4. v. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
5. v. take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
6. v. enter someone else's territory and take spoils