Definition of "raid"

Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight.

1805, Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, page 109

There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids.

1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315

For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎

The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎

Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.

2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku‎, archived from the original on November 9, 2017

Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.

2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch‎, archived from the original on November 4, 2017