Term Gallery logo

Meanings of raiding in English

Characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding.

Related terms
Usage of raiding in English
1
The Great Wall of China was unable to repel the raiding hordes.
News.com.au
2
Police fired to stop the protesters from raiding the compounds, they said.
Reuters
3
He usually fought from the water, raiding and leaving with deadly swiftness.
The captive
4
I surprise a family of raccoons raiding the Dumpster, but no Sally.
Arcadia falls
5
Meanwhile, the cavalry of Guthrum were raiding the country far and wide.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English
6
Which means zeroing in on a technically advanced civilization and raiding them.
Anathem
7
The Thaumaturg had always been very effective in intercepting their raiding parties.
Blood and Bone
8
Them onery Mexican Indians have broke loose and are raiding the country.
The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians; Or, Trailing the Yaquis
9
Pre-emptively raiding your neighbours lest they raid you is routine human behaviour.
The Rational Optimist
10
The murderer-the grey-armored leader of the raiding party-stepped up to join them.
The Scar
11
And they did this while plundering and raiding this continent's aboriginal population.
Ebony
12
Jones informed me that certain powerful banking interests were raiding the stock.
John Henry Smith / A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
13
On that he disclosed his whole daring scheme for raiding the Pacific.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
14
We will take Larsa, and punish its leaders for raiding our lands.
Quest for honour
15
The Messenger was dispatching a raiding party to the outskirts of Medina.
Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
16
But the raiding was no worse than anywhere else along the Border.
To the blight: the eye of the world
About this term
Raiding through the time
Raiding across language varieties
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common