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noun
a raid by aircraft, especially for bombing a particular area.
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Origin of air raid
First recorded in 1910–15
OTHER WORDS FROM air raid
air-raid, adjectiveair raider, nounWords nearby air raid
airproof,
air pump,
Air Quality Index,
air quotes,
air rage,
air raid,
air-raid shelter,
air-raid warden,
air rifle,
air right,
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How to use air raid in a sentence
Catbirds are pretty vocal, but this guy was like an air raid siren, squawking up a storm.
A 50-year-old woman died Friday morning during an air raid from injuries she sustained running for shelter.
Its production lines had been converted to pump out air raid PA systems and scrambler telephones to support the war effort.
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
Sprawled on chaise lounges with their knees high in the air and their legs spread wide.
Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
There is a larger reason, beyond the airlines themselves, why Lion Air and 61 other Indonesian airlines are on this black list.
The Pentagon said Faal served in the Air Force for seven years, during which time he became a U.S. citizen.
Bells were pealing and tolling in all directions, and the air was filled with the sound of distant shouts and cries.
It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
We had now approached closely to the foot of the mountain-ranges, and their lofty summits were high above us in mid-air.
He stood, with the air of a hero, both arms extended towards the amazed pair of lovers.
Their method of curing the leaves was to air-dry them and then packing them until wanted for use.
British Dictionary definitions for air raid
noun
- an attack by hostile aircraft
- (as modifier)an air-raid shelter
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