0 a short sudden attack, usually by a small group of people: --
2 a planned attack by a military group that is done suddenly and unexpectedly and is intended to destroy or damage something: --
3 to enter a place suddenly and unexpectedly in order to search for something or stop an illegal activity: --
4 an attempt to take control of a company by buying a lot of its shares: --
The town itself was reduced to rubble by rockets and air raids.
Others were seized in raids and reworked for the corso or broken up for their wood.
Ngoreme elders set a much earlier date for their participation in raiding (c. 1880).
By the outbreak of war, only limited preparations had been made for the protection of the civilian population from the impact of air raids.
As a result, unnoticed cinders smoldering from our previous week's raid at another munitions plant will burn that one to the ground.
The 1890s were a period of devastating drought and epidemic, triggering a surge of raiding to reconstitute the herds.
There were, however, many areas that were regularly raided and somehow survived.
In 1943 raids became significantly more frequent and intense, with thousands of people regularly being rendered homeless by single raids.
