Counterraid

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A raid carried out in response to another raid.

    "England was a confusion of warring camps, where families and towns and countrysides were split into hating factions; everywhere there was treason and countertreason, and raid and counterraid."

Verb
  1. 1
    To carry out a counterraid.

Example

More examples

"England was a confusion of warring camps, where families and towns and countrysides were split into hating factions; everywhere there was treason and countertreason, and raid and counterraid."

Etymology

From counter- + raid.

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