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Raid Place Enter Force Order Armed Building Steal

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If someone r____ a building or place, they enter it by force in order to steal something.If someone raids a building or place, they enter it by force in order to steal something.
A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of raiding a bank.
...an armed raid on a small Post Office.
He carried out a series of bank raids.
word raid
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verb
When soldiers raid a place, they make a sudden armed attack against it, with the aim of causing damage rather than occupying any of the enemy's land.
The guerrillas raided banks and destroyed a police barracks and an electricity substation.
The rebels attempted a surprise raid on a military camp.
Its planes are carrying out heavy bombing raids against the guerrillas.
If the police raid a building, they enter it suddenly and by force in order to look for dangerous criminals or for evidence of something illegal, such as drugs or weapons .
Fraud squad officers raided the firm's offices.
They were arrested early this morning after a raid on a house by thirty armed police.
If someone raids a building or place, they enter it by force in order to steal something.
A 19-year-old man has been found guilty of raiding a bank.
...an armed raid on a small Post Office.
He carried out a series of bank raids.
If you raid the fridge or the larder, you take food from it to eat instead of a meal or in between meals.
She made her way to the kitchen to raid the fridge.
inflections raidsraidingraided
cefr-level C1

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