air raid

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   an attack by armed planes on a surface target

   Synonymsair attack

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Questions about air raid

What does air raid mean?

air raid means "an attack by armed planes on a surface target".

What is another word for air raid?

Close synonyms include air attack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air raid a common word?

air raid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.