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.
noun
definition
The act of carrying out a raid.
Examples of raiding in a Sentence
Slave raiding has ceased, but domestic slavery in a mild form continues.
Are we raiding the castle?
He moved within range of the girl's room, intent on raiding her mind for information.
Now he'll get a taste for chickens and start raiding my hen house every night.
In 1899 the mullah began raiding tribes friendly to the British; in August of that year he occupied Burao, 80 m.
Since the reconquest of the eastern Sudan by an Anglo-Egyptian force in 1898 effective measures have been taken to suppress slave raiding and as far as possible slavery itself.
At the close of the first decade of the 10th century it might be said that over the greater part of Africa slave raiding was a thing of the past.
In the spring of 1401 Owen was raiding in south Wales, and credited with the intention of invading England.
Though the history of the Congo Free State affords a painful contrast to the philanthropic professions of its founder, in other parts of the continent the establishment of protectorates by Great Britain, France and Germany was followed by strenuous, and largely successful, efforts to put down slave raiding.
Trade does not extend largely between Afghanistan and India by the Tochi route, being locally confined to the valley and the districts at its head, yet this is the shortest and most direct route between Ghazni and the frontier, and in the palmy days of Ghazni raiding was the road by which the great robber Mahmud occasionally descended on to the Indus plains.
Traces of his raiding and roadmaking are still visible, but it is certain that he made use of the more direct route to Peshawar far more frequently than he did of the Tochi.
The Kunahamas are a wild, raiding tribe and were probably largely influenced by the revolt of their southern neighbours, the Hereros, against the Germans.
The nomads are Mussulmans and are, as a rule, docile and pacific, though the Danakils are given to occasional raiding.
Some tracts of frontier territory are detached from the various regions and entrusted to political residents, as, for instance, on the Sudan frontier and also on the Abyssinian boundary, where strict surveillance is necessary to repress raiding incursions from Tigre, and where the chief intelligence department is established.
Sedalia was a Union military post throughout the Civil War; on the r 5th of October 1864 a detachment from Sterling Price's raiding column dislodged a small Union force that was occupying the town, but the Confederate occupation lasted only one day.
The effect of these expeditions, and of this extension of military occupation, has been to reduce the independent Pathan tribes of the Suliman mountains to effective order, and to put a stop to border raiding on the Indus plains south of the Gomal.
In November 1906 a small party of Transvaal Boers, who had been employed by the Germans against the Hottentots, entered the colony under the leadership of a man named Ferreira, and began raiding farms and forcibly enrolling recruits.
The Yorkists courted the approval of public opinion by their careful avoidance of pillage and requisitions; and the Lancastrians, though less scrupulous, only once launched out into general raiding and devastation, during the advance of the queens army to St Albans in the early months of 1461.
He was continually raiding Northumbria and once almost succeeded in reducing Bamborough.
After the discovery of Albert Nyanza by Sir Samuel Baker in 1864, the whole country was overrun by Arabs, Levantines, Turks and others, whose chief occupation was slave raiding.
The systematic raiding of Lithuania by the knights under the pretext of converting it had long since united all the Lithuanian tribes against the common enemy; but Gedymin aimed at establishing a dynasty which should make Lithuania not merely secure but mighty, and for this purpose he entered into direct diplomatic negotiations with the Holy See.
He went up to Bogos, and had an interview with Walad Michael, an Abyssinian chief and the hereditary ruler of Bogos, who had joined the Egyptians with a view to raiding on his own account.
During the later Middle Ages the Pele Tower was developed to resist the almost ceaseless raiding that characterized the Anglo-Scottish frontier.
The Germans, alerted by the chance meeting of a coastal convoy with the raiding force, wiped out the entire force.
The pattern of tribal grouping in Gabon was severely disrupted by slave raiding which continued well into the nineteenth century.
Raiding has always been used as a strategy to restock herds during or after a drought.
The striped hyena is sometimes killed by farmers for raiding their fruit crops.
Despite the late stage of the war, german minesweepers and raiding parties sortied from the Channel Islands and boldly attacked the port.
Wonder whether the accipiter raiding your feeder is a female sharp-shinned hawk or a male Cooper's hawk?
Why were they not raiding a drugs den or a human trafficking sex slave brothel instead?
Humans also hate bad breath - try raiding the neighbor's rubbish tin to get something particularly smelly.
Killis, who had been raised to the rank of vizier, to deal with the situation in Syria, where a Turkish general AftakIn had gained possession of Damascus, and was raiding the whole country; on the arrival of Jauhar in Syria the Turks called the Carmathians to their aid, and after a campaign of many vicissitudes Jauhar had to return to Egypt to implore the caliph himself to take the field.
Wonder whether the accipiter raiding your feeder is a female sharp-shinned hawk or a male Cooper 's hawk?
Humans also hate bad breath - try raiding the neighbor 's rubbish tin to get something particularly smelly.
In the US warplane raiding areas of Helmand province, 3 Afghan children lost their lives.
Because of the amount of household activity there, lights are often left on after raiding the refrigerator or answering the phone.
You may also be able to find great punk material by raiding a man's closet, especially if some of his clothes might be a bit outdated.
See who would confess to spying on a neighbor, visiting a nude beach, or raiding a kid's piggy bank!
Also try raiding the kitchen for empty boxes, chip tubes, empty egg containers, or anything else you could clean and store craft supplies in.
Raiding gay bars was nothing new, and the police did it all the time in the sixties, but this time, it touched off violent riots, which many attribute to the gay community's smouldering sense of loss and outrage.
He went after Sasha when Sasha hurt his daughter and didn't stop raiding the Immortals until Sasha was dead.
Anlaf Godfreyson returned to Ireland and died in 94194 2 in a raiding expedition in the south of Scotland.
It is mentioned so early as the 7th century and in 868 Baldwin of the Iron Arm, first count of Flanders, who had been entrusted by Charles the Bald with the defence of the northern marches, built a castle here against the Normans raiding up the Scheldt.
For this decision there were good reasons, for those turbulent sons of the steppe paid no taxes and were much given to brigandage, and their raiding propensities occasionally created international difficulties with the khan of the Crimea and the sultan of Turkey.
The tribes north of this line were told that if they abstained from raiding to the south of it they would not be interfered with.
In December 1901 the mullah was, however, once more raiding in the neighbourhood of Burao, and in May Wars with 1902 Colonel Swayne led another expedition against the Mullah him, the Somali levies being strengthened by the 2nd Mahomme dKing's African Rifles, consisting of Yaos from Nyasa- Abdullah.
For some three years the mullah remained quiescent, but in Evacuation 1908 he quarrelled with the Mijertins and in 1909 he of the was again raiding tribes in the British protector Interior.
On the other hand the treaty of Vasvar gave Hungary a respite from regular Turkish invasions for twenty years, though the border raiding continued uninterruptedly.
Liman von Sanders expresses the opinion that the German submarines on the spot were of no assistance to him, and that the British boats, in spite of their frequent raiding of the Sea of Marmora, did not seriously interfere with his water movements.
From Gallabat a dervish raiding party penetrated to Gondar, which they looted.