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say it: rayd
raid is a verb and noun meaning "search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on". It is pronounced /ˈɹeɪd/ — rayd. It carries 6 recorded senses.
enter someone else's territory and take spoils
“The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly”
take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
“T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies”
a sudden short attack
an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for raid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.