Synonyms: raid
Definition: an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
Similar words: embezzlement, peculation, misapplication, misappropriation, defalcation
Definition: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
Definition: a sudden short attack
Similar words: incursion, penetration
Definition: an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
Synonyms: raid
Definition: search for something needed or desired
Usage: Our babysitter raided our refrigerator
Similar words: search
Definition: subject to a search
Usage: The police searched the suspect; We searched the whole house for the missing keys
Synonyms: foray into, raid
Definition: enter someone else's territory and take spoils
Usage: The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly
Similar words: obtrude upon, intrude on, invade, encroach upon
Definition: to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
Usage: This new colleague invades my territory; The neighbors intrude on your privacy
Synonyms: raid
Definition: take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
Usage: T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies
Similar words: take over, seize, usurp, assume, arrogate
Definition: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
Usage: He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town; he usurped my rights; She seized control of the throne after her husband died
Definition: search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
Usage: The police raided the crack house
Definition: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
Usage: Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II; Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week