verb
definition
To engage in a raid against.
example
The police raided the gambling den.
definition
To lure from another; to entice away from.
definition
To indulge oneself by taking from.
example
I raided the fridge for snacks.
Examples of raided in a Sentence
These two potentates raided for slaves to the borders of the rivers and openly threatened the British position on the Niger.
At the same time Egypt was invaded by the Franks, who raided and did much damage on the coast.
In October of that year the Ruffians revolted from the Roghi and raided the mines, which remained closed until June 1909.
In the following year James was in correspondence with Perkin, then in Ireland; in 1495 he received that pretendant, married him to a daughter of Huntly, and in 1496 raided northern England in his company, - all this in contempt of the offered hand of a Tudor princess.
We can wonder what happened to the pen and who raided her panties but we'll probably never know the answer to either question.
It had been raided, and looters left a trail of supplies leading out of it.
He'd thought Jenn didn't either, but after that kiss … He made himself a hamburger, ate it, then raided the fridge.
In June 1781 Tarleton raided Charlottesville and the vicinity, nearly captured Thomas Jefferson, and destroyed the public records and some arms and ammunition.
In the 17th century it was often raided by buccaneers, notably in 1606, when it was completely sacked.
In 1374 the Egyptians raided Cilicia and captured Leo VI., prince of Lesser Armenia, which now became an Egyptian province with a Moslem governor.
These pagan tribes were repeatedly raided by the Bagirmese for slaves.
Paul Jones, the notorious buccaneer, served his apprenticeship at the port, which in 1778 he successfully raided, burning three vessels.
The Arab invasion of North Africa in the 7th century, which turned Egypt into a Mahommedan country, had not the same effect in Nubia, the Moslems, though they frequently raided the country, being unable to hold it.
The country was raided by Seljuks and harried by Byzantine soldiers, and the miseries of the people were regarded as gain to the Orthodox church.
In 86 it was raided by Mithradates' admiral Archelaus during a short foray into Ionian waters.
His location was eventually betrayed to the authorities who raided Scotney Castle on two occasions in an attempt to capture him.
Children raided their money boxes to bring in to school all the 1p & 2p coins they could carry.
Content and shopped out, we raided a local gourmet deli and headed home to watch movies and eat lunch.
There are Goth bands clad in black with smudged eyeliner freshly raided from their mother's drawers.
On 23 August 1971, an armed gang raided a jeweler's shop in Blackpool.
Then she compares a bar being raided by the police to an attack by skinheads.
In January 1886 Ras Alula raided the village of Wa, to the west of Zula, but towards the end of the year (23rd November) \Va was occupied by the irregular troops of General Gene, who had superseded Colonel Saiettaat Massawa.
Neither side had been careful to observe the terms of the treaty of 1547; the Turkish pashas in Hungary had raided Ferdinand's dominions, while Ferdinand had been negotiating with Frater GeOrgy (see Martinuzzi) with a view to freeing Transylvania from the Ottoman suzerainty.
All through the preceding year Hassan " Tilli," beylerbey of Bosnia, had raided in Croatia, taking border fortresses and driving off the inhabitants into slavery.
Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).
Football superstar Michael Vick was indicted on federal dog fighting charges when his Virginia home was raided, with police finding over 66 dogs, a dog fighting ring and blood soaked carpets.
The storage locker has since been raided by the police and its contents hauled away for evidence.
Things didn't get any better for Murray as his offices were raided by the Drug Enforcement Agency and various items were hauled off that were reportedly kept as "…evidence of the offense of manslaughter."
It is easier to shop sales online than in stores where the inventory is often raided within the first few sale hours.
On June 11, 1971 after many of the Native Americans had already left, Federal Marshalls raided the island and arrested the remaining 11 Native American occupiers, and the 19-month occupation ended.
Five days after her death in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York.
The Maclaurins acquired the district as early as the 9th century and occupied it for several hundred years until ousted by the Macgregors, a neighbouring clan, who had repeatedly raided their lands, and in 1558 slew the chief and many of his followers.
They are skilful hunters, however, catch fish by in geniously constructed traps, and live almost entirely on jungle-roots of these people is found in Upper Perak, and the members of this clan have acquired some knowledge of the art of planting, &c. They they have been raided by the latter, and many Negritos are to be found in captivity in some of the Malayan villages on the eastern side of the peninsula.
Young crossed the frontier from Canada and raided the town of St Albans.
In spite of almost insuperable difficulties the colony took root, trade began, the fleet lay in wait for the Spanish treasure ships, the settlements of the Spaniards were raided, and their repeated attempts to retake the island were successfully resisted.
More than once they raided and pillaged in wholesale fashion the territory they were supposed to protect.
The headquarters of the horde were at Bamian and at Balkh, and from these points they raided south-east and south-west.
This commando was defeated at Viervoet, near Thaba Nchu, by the Basuto, who thereafter raided and plundered the natives opposed to them and the farmers who had helped the British.
The chief event in the history of Brielle is its capture by the Gueux sur Mer, a squadron of privateers which raided the Dutch coast under commission of the prince of Orange.
The region was repeatedly raided by camp followers of each army; earthworks and a fort, commanding the Hudson ferry and the ferry to Paramus, New Jersey, were built; the British army made Dobbs Ferry a rendezvous, after the battle of White Plains, in November 1776, and the continental division under General Benjamin Lincoln was here at the end of January 1777.
Their chief town, Bolgari or Velikij Gorod (Great Town) of the Russian annals, was often raided by the Russians.
Constant punitive measures were carried on by the military police; but in December 1892 a police column proceeding to establish a post at Sima was heavily attacked, and simultaneously the town of Myitkyina was raided by Kachins.
They raided into the British district of Darrang and carried off several native forest officers as hostages.
The southern districts and the Amazon and its tributaries were often raided by slave-hunting expeditions, and their Indian populations were either decimated, or driven farther into the inaccessible forests.
In 1831 that chief raided their settlements, the whites all fleeing south of the Umzimkulu; but at Dingaan's invitation they soon returned.
In 934 and 942 they raided the Eastern Empire, and were bought off under the very walls of Constantinople.
These, under Sir Archibald Hunter and Sir Leslie Rundle, successfully herded Prinsloo with 4000 Free Staters into the Brandwater Basin (July 29) - a very satisfactory result, but one seriously marred by the escape of De Wet, who soon afterwards raided the Western Transvaal and again escaped between converging pursuers under Kitchener, Methuen, SmithDorrien, Ian Hamilton and Baden-Powell.
Its inhabitants, though nominally subject to the lords of Glamorgan since Fitzhamon's conquest, enjoyed a large measure of independence and often raided the lowlands.
A Zulu kraal having been raided, the Zulu retaliated and, surrounding a small Boer commando, succeeded in killing every member of it.
A succession of Ninevite armies raided north Syria and even south-east Asia Minor, and gradually reduced the Hatti.