raid

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The target of the raid was the narcotraficante known as "El Conejo" - the Rabbit.

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  1. noun A surprise attack by a small armed force.
  2. noun A sudden forcible entry into a place by police: a raid on a gambling den.
  3. noun An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.
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  • 'Delousing' after a raid was a severe drain on scarce manpower, although this was alleviated by enlisting the aid of the local Home Guard and the Air Training Corps. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • With insufficient time to improvise, the raid was allowed to proceed. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • The men he had chosen for the raid were his second-best dozen; he looked them over as he spoke a brief invocation, carefully kept non-denominational out of respect for the doctrinal differences between True Worder, Chosen, and Truechurcher. —  Shining Steel
  • Perhaps he who had dealt with Tacktile had not known that the raid was already a fact, or had chosen to suppress that knowledge. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • Witnesses said another raid was at Liverpool's John Moores University.
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invasion ·  assault ·  expedition ·  foray ·  warfare ·  conflict ·  engagement ·  patrol ·  disaster ·  mission ·  robbery ·  skirmish

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raid:   raids ·  raiding ·  raided
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Scots, raid on horseback, from Middle English rade, from Old English rād, a riding, road; see reidh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also rade; from Middle English rade, Northern form of rode, from AS, rād, a riding, = Icelandic reidh, a riding, a raid: see road, of which raid is a variant, prob. in part from the cognate Icelandic form.
  2. from raid, n.
 

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