raid

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A surprise attack by a small armed force.
• noun A sudden forcible entry into a place by police.
• noun An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.
• noun A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.
• noun An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.
• noun An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.
• intransitive verb To make a raid on.
• intransitive verb To conduct a raid or participate in one.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A hostile or predatory incursion; especially, an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a swooping assault for injury or plunder; a foray.
• noun Hence A sudden onset in general; an irruption for or as if for assault or seizure; a descent made in an unexpected or undesired manner: as, a police raid upon a gambling-house.
• To go upon a raid; engage in a sudden hostile or disturbing incursion, foray, or descent.
• To make a raid or hostile attack upon; encroach upon by foray or incursion.
• Hence To attack in any way; affect injuriously by sudden or covert assault or invasion of any kind: as, to raid a gambling-house.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To make a raid upon or into.
• noun A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
• noun Colloq. U. S. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
• noun An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
• noun online gaming A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
• noun sports An attacking movement.
• verb To engage in a raid.
• verb To steal from; pillage
• verb To lure from another; to entice away from
• verb To indulge oneself by taking from

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb search for something needed or desired
• noun a sudden short attack
• noun an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
• verb search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
• verb take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
• verb enter someone else's territory and take spoils