raid

A surprise attack, often done by people trying to take something or harm others.

Word Structure

Sentence Examples

The raids against military targets continued.

The planes flew a raid on the naval base.

The raid lasted for 3 minutes.

Semantic Relatives

attack

assault

capture

Morphological Relatives 1

raided

raider

raiding

Vocabulary Term

Slave raid

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