Raid vs Despoil - What's the difference?
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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
* H. Spenser
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.
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(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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To engage in a raid.
To steal from; pillage
To lure from another; to entice away from
To indulge oneself by taking from
To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
*Macaulay
*:a law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled
*2010 , The Economist , 17 July, p.53:
*:To dreamers in the West, Tibet is a Shangri-La despoiled by Chinese ruthlessness and rapacity.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
*1614 , (Sir Walter Raleigh), History of the World :
*:The Earl of March, following the plain path which his father had trodden out, despoiled Henry the father, and Edward the son, both of their lives and kingdom.
*1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , Book 9, 410-11:
*:To intercept thy way, or send thee back / Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
*1849 , , History of England , Ch.20:
*:A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled .
To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
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*:So syr Persants doughter dyd as her fader bad her / and soo she wente vnto syr Beaumayns bed / & pryuely she dispoylled her / & leid her doune by hym / & thenne he awoke & sawe her & asked her what she was
As nouns the difference between raid and despoil
is that 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 while despoil is plunder; spoliation.As verbs the difference between raid and despoil
is that raid is to engage in a raid while despoil is to deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.As an acronym RAID
is a redundant array of inexpensive disks, or, less frequently restated as a redundant array of independent disks.raid
English
Noun
(en noun)- Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid , the morning fight.
- There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids .
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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.}}