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fraid | raid |

As an adjective fraid

is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a noun raid is

a hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

As a verb raid is

to engage in a raid.

As an acronym RAID is

a redundant array of inexpensive disks, or, less frequently restated as a redundant array of independent disks.

fraid

English

Adjective

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Edith Van Dyne, title=Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Guess ye'd better speak to 'em about spendin' so much money, Mr. Merrick; I'm 'fraid they may need it some day." " }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, title=The Gilded Age, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When a man is 'gaged in prah, he ain't fraid o' nuffin--dey can't nuffin tetch him." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1872, author=Harriet Beecher Stowe, title=Oldtown Fireside Stories, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Yis," he continued, "there was a time when folks said I could a hed Miry ef I'd asked her; and I putty much think so myself, but I didn't say nothin': marriage is allers kind o'ventursome; an' Miry had such up-and-down kind o' ways, I was sort o' fraid on't. }} ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Adjective

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  • cold

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    raid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid , the morning fight.
  • * H. Spenser
    • There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids .
  • An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2004 , date=April 15 , author= , title=Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=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. }}
  • (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
  • (sports) An attacking movement.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}

    Synonyms

    * (hostile or predatory incursion): attack, foray, incursion * irruption

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in a raid.
  • To steal from; pillage
  • To lure from another; to entice away from
  • To indulge oneself by taking from

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