raid

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   search for something needed or desired

   Our babysitter raided our refrigerator

2. 2
   verb

   enter someone else's territory and take spoils

   The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly

3. 3
   verb

   take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

   T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies

4. 4
   verb

   search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

   The police raided the crack house

5. 5
   noun

   A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

   Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

6. 6
   noun

   An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

   a police raid of a narcotics factory

7. 7
   noun

   An attacking movement.

   The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

8. 8
   noun

   An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.

   Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.

Etymology

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).