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RAID

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attempt by speculators to defraud investors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("raid" is a kind of...):

defalcation; embezzlement; misapplication; misappropriation; peculation (the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else)

Derivation:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sudden short attack

Synonyms:

foray; maraud; raid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("raid" is a kind of...):

incursion; penetration (an attack that penetrates into enemy territory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raid"):

air attack; air raid (an attack by armed planes on a surface target)

swoop (a very rapid raid)

Derivation:

raid (search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Search for something needed or desired

Example:

Our babysitter raided our refrigerator

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

search (subject to a search)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Enter someone else's territory and take spoils

Example:

The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly

Synonyms:

foray into; raid

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "raid"):

maraud (raid and rove in search of booty)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The customs agents raid the bags for drugs

Derivation:

raider (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

arrogate; assume; seize; take over; usurp (seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

raid (an attempt by speculators to defraud investors)

raider (a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

Example:

The police raided the crack house

Synonyms:

bust; raid

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "raid" is one way to...):

assail; attack (launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

raid (a sudden short attack)

Credits

 Context examples: 

There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium smuggling into the States and arms smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“It just comes to me,” she said, “that Captain Larsen was telling me how the men raided the rookeries. They drive the seals, in small herds, a short distance inland before they kill them.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I bustled about in quite housewifely fashion, procuring soothing lotions for her sunburn, raiding Wolf Larsen’s private stores for a bottle of port I knew to be there, and directing Thomas Mugridge in the preparation of the spare state-room.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)