counterraid

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noun

A raid carried out in response to another raid.

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Meanings

nouncounterraid (plural counterraids)

plural counterraids

  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.

    2010, John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed, page 99
verbcounterraid (third-person singular simple present counterraids, present participle counterraiding, simple past and past participle counterraided)

present singular third person counterraids · participle present counterraiding · participle past counterraided · past counterraided

  1. To carry out a counterraid.

Origin

From counter- + raid.

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APA

counterraid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterraid

MLA

“counterraid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterraid. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counterraid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counterraid.

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