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raider
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun raider has 2 senses
- raider(n = noun.person) despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler - someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war); Array has particulars: buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover
- raider(n = noun.group) Array - a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management; Array is a kind of corporate investor
is a kind of stealer, thief
Derived form verb raid2
Derived form verb raid3
THESAURUS
raider
aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, depredator, despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, invader, looter, marauder, mugger, pillager, plunderer, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, sacker, spoiler, spoliator, wrecker
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