RAIDER Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

raider

noun

ˈrā-dər

as in invader

one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery

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Recent Examples of raider Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda. —

Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026 Millions couldn’t escape the raiders on the continent. —

Laurent Dubois, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026 Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters. —

Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025 Who were these Iron Age sea raiders? —

Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raider

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invader

Noun

Stay on top of lawn weeds this season by getting to know turf invaders and when to control them.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
The game got chaotic in the final minutes as several pitch invaders ran onto the field attempting to reach Messi.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026