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.

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, 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.}}

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) The physical act of seizing]] or [[take hold, taking hold of; seizure.

* 2006 , Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus'' and ''Babiraptor'' (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:

The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.

(legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

* 1855 , , North and South , ch. 37:

The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.

* 1815 , , "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):

We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.

Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

* 1901 , , Penelope's English Experiences , ch. 8:

We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 7:

Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.

Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

* 1846 , , Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life , ch. 32:

Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.

(Webster 1913)