2. Verb. (third-person singular of raid) ¹
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Definition of Raids
1. raid [v] - See also: raid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raids
Literary usage of Raids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"But indiscriminate air-raids upon cities like London, Manchester, ... For, first,
such raids are obviously undertaken, not in order to kill enemy troops, ..."
2. Report of the Joint Select Committee Appointed to Inquire Into the Condition by Luke Potter Poland, John Scott (1872)
"I have been on two raids and whipped two colored boys. I joined the organization
last April. The chief of our Klan is Joseph Vassey. Judge BOND. ..."
3. The Kurds of Turkey: Killings, Disappearances and Torture by Lois Whitman (1993)
"KILLINGS IN HOUSE raids Turkey faces serious law enforcement and military problems:
extremist left-wing groups (chiefly Dev Sol -- "Revolutionary Left") ..."
4. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"Propriety of an Outline of some succeeding Events.—Cavalry Enterprises of the
Enemy.—The raids in Mississippi and Virginia. ..."
5. Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo by Julie Mertus, Vlatka Mihelić (1993)
"We were afraid that the same fate would happen to us.24 One of the other men who
fled had been an eyewitness to the police raids on ..."
6. Freedom of Speech by Zechariah Chafee (1920)
"The raids of January, 1920, have been fully described in the opinion of Judge
George W. Anderson in the Colyer case. This book will therefore only discuss ..."
7. History of Arizona and New Mexico, 1530-1888 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak (1889)
"The Apaches continued their raids, sometimes driving off live-stock from under the
... Retaliatory raids of the soldiers became less and less effective, ..."
8. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"360-361. the explosion at. with the Vindictive. raids on Paris. II. 301-363; 371.
IX. ... Alfred, his Mexican note. last raids in England IV. 203 306. IV. ..."
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