raid
noun
[ reɪd ]
• a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces.
• "a bombing raid"
Similar:
surprise attack,
hit-and-run raid,
tip-and-run raid,
assault,
descent,
blitz,
incursion,
foray,
sortie,
sally,
inroad,
onslaught,
onrush,
storming,
charge,
thrust,
offensive,
invasion,
blitzkrieg,
razzia,
raid
verb
• conduct a raid on.
• "officers raided thirty homes yesterday"
Similar:
attack,
make a raid on,
assault,
set upon,
descend on,
swoop on,
harass,
harry,
blitz,
make inroads on,
assail,
storm,
rush,
charge,
plunder,
steal from,
pillage,
loot,
rifle,
maraud,
strip,
ransack,
sack,
despoil,
reave,
spoil,
depredate,
spoliate,
forage,
rob,
hold up,
break into,
stick up,
search,
make a search of,
bust,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun): Scots variant of road in the early senses ‘journey on horseback’, ‘foray’. The noun became rare from the end of the 16th century but was revived by Sir Walter Scott; the verb dates from the mid 19th century.
RAID
abbreviation
• redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, a system for providing greater capacity, faster access, and security against data corruption by spreading data across several disk drives.
