raid

• rade (Scotland)

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).

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

   Synonyms: attack, foray, incursion

   • 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109:

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

   • 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315:

     There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

2. (law enforcement) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

   Synonym: irruption

   a police raid of a narcotics factory

   a raid of contractors on the public treasury

   • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[1]:

     For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

3. (sports) An attacking movement.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     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.

4. (Internet slang) 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.
   • 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku‎^[3], archived from the original on November 9, 2017:

     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.

   • 2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch‎^[4], archived from the original on November 4, 2017:

     Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.

5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
6. (social media) An event involving a flash mob of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
   • 2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit‎^[5], archived from the original on 2024-09-06, r/discordapp:

     I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.

   • 2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit‎^[6], r/guilded:

     Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.

   The police raided the gambling den.

   The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.

   A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.

2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

   I raided the fridge for snacks.

• caught raiding the cookie jar
• raider
• ramraid

• → Spanish: raid
• → French: raid
• → Italian: raid
• → Polish: rajd
• → Romanian: raid
• → Swedish: räd

• Radi, Rida, arid, dira, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

From Spanish raid, from English raid.

• IPA^(key): /rai̯d/, [rai̯ð̞]

raid inan

1. (military) raid

   Synonym: razzia

2. long-distance race, rally

• “raid”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/

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• Homophones: raide, raides, raids

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

• “raid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dira, rida

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrajd/, /ˈrɛjd/, /ˈrejd/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ajd, -ɛjd, -ejd
• Hyphenation: ràid

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

• Idra, ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, idra, radi, rida, ridà

Borrowed from French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.

raid n (plural raiduri)

1. raid

From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.

• IPA^(key): /red/

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

• → English: raid, rade (Scotland)
  • → Spanish: raid
  • → French: raid
  • → Italian: raid
  • → Polish: rajd
  • → Romanian: raid
  • → Swedish: räd

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraid/ [ˈrai̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -aid
• Syllabification: raid

raid m (plural raides)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race

• “raid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Finnic *raita, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spraiþō.

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