raiding 1 of 2

noun

Definition of raidingnext
as in looting

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raiding

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verb

present participle of raid
1
as in invading
to enter for conquest or plunder a fox has been raiding the chicken coop, and now we're down to eight hens

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2
as in attacking
to take sudden, violent action against the enemy tribe raided the village just before dawn, taking everyone by surprise

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  1. invading
  2. attacking
  3. assaulting
  4. robbery
  5. robbing
  6. plunder
Verb
  • The idea of fear invading any part of the Lions locker room is ludicrous.
    Steve Silverman, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Kevin Harlan has had a number of memorable calls in his broadcast career, ranging from a field-invading cat to a field-invading fan.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of invading
Verb
  • But future opponents will surely seek to incorporate elements of the defensive blueprint which helped Everton and Fulham derail Chelsea’s attacking momentum.
    Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • And all up and down the 800-mile front line in western Russia and northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, Russian troops are attacking.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of attacking
Verb
  • The men allegedly took turns assaulting Doe while the female celebrity watched.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In another setback, Le Pen lost his European Parliament seat in 2002 for a year for assaulting a Socialist politician during a 1997 election campaign.
    Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of assaulting
Noun
  • The man didn’t give any details about the shooting, except for saying that robbery may have been a motive, according to police.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Case in point: Derek Lee, an Allegheny man sentenced to life without parole in 2016 for his role in a robbery in which his accomplice killed a homeowner.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of robbery
Verb
  • One of Mangione’s attorneys told a judge that government officials, including New York Mayor Eric Adams, have turned Mangione into a political pawn, robbing him of his rights as a defendant and tainting the jury pool.
    Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Cops have arrested a motorist accused of attacking and robbing an NYPD traffic enforcement agent of his electronic summons book after getting a ticket on a busy Queens street, police said Friday.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of robbing
Noun
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.
    Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of plunder
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