RAIDS Synonyms: 155 Similar and Opposite Words

raids 1 of 2

noun

plural of raid

as in invasions

a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory repeated Viking raids wore down the defenses of the seaside village

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as in attacks

the act or action of setting upon with force or violence an early morning raid by Federal agents took the smugglers in their hideout by surprise

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raids

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of raid

as in invades

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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as in assaults

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

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Recent Examples of raids

Noun

Prosecutors say Ian Roberts spent nearly two decades working in urban schools without authorization, using a counterfeit Social Security card as Des Moines’ leader, even as Trump-era ICE raids intensified. —

Hannah Fingerhut, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 The bakery became a gathering point for community support during federal immigration raids in Charlotte last fall, when Betancur temporarily closed the shop for the first time in its history. —

Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026 As the raids continued for weeks, Halverson and his staff set up an e-learning program for students who had to stay at home, whether because their parents feared for their children’s safety or their own. —

Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 28 May 2026 Activision says the campaign storyline will take players from trench warfare in Korea to close-quarters battles in New York, to high-speed pursuits through Paris, SAS night raids in Mumbai, and city-wide assaults to reclaim territory. —

Jennifer Maas, Variety, 28 May 2026 Experts say that targeting criminal organizations’ financial operations is essential to reducing their power, which has ballooned in the past decades, and more effective than deadly police raids in Brazil’s poor, urban communities. —

ABC News, 28 May 2026 During their probe, investigators found more than $100,000 in cash inside safes at the Sheriff’s Office in Queens — a surprising turn given Sheriff Anthony Miranda’s statements that his deputies don’t collect money during raids. —

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026 Johnson said the discussion ranged from serious matters like the federal immigration raids that have deluged the city in recent months to their differences on Chicago baseball. —

Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026 Many of the targets for these cases came from raids on distributors who had sold the access cards and bootloaders. —

ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026

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That figure has dwindled to around 3 percent as fewer candidates avail themselves of the money and Congress raids the fund for other things. —

Adam Lashinsky, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2026 Some owls will hunt the wildlife that raids our garbage cans, like skunks and opossums. —

Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Mar. 2026 More news to know now FBI raids Atlanta election facility. —

Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026 November raids By mid-November, law enforcement had collected enough evidence to conduct early-morning raids, including on North Carey Street at the home of Shawn Oliver. —

Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025 The episode sees Marge revisit her nostalgia for a Dawson's Creek-esque '90s teen drama as Lisa raids her mom's closet for vintage threads with the help of fashion-forward classmates Devin (Cole Escola) and Vidalia (Stephanie Hsu). —

Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025 Appalachian State’s victory at Michigan in 2007 remains the greatest example of what can happen when a good FCS team walks into your house and raids the fridge, and everything else, but leaves the dog. —

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Sep. 2025 Microsoft raids Google’s AI ranks Mustafa Suleyman, one of the founders of Google’s DeepMind, who is now head of Microsoft AI, is raiding his old company for talent, calling them personally on the phone with the promise that life at Microsoft has more of a startup vibe than Google does. —

Diane Brady, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Fungal pathogens are usually already present in the soil of the lawn, and they can be activated when ideal conditions for fungal invasions arrive.

— David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 28 May 2026
But that was no surprise in a notoriously toxic period for British tabloids that subjected female stars (both homegrown and American, like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears) to invasions of privacy and public hounding.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 28 May 2026