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air raid
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air raid
n.
An attack by military aircraft, especially when armed with bombs and rockets.
air raid
n
(Military)
a.  an attack by hostile aircraft
b.  (as modifier) an air-raid shelter
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.air raidair raid - an attack by armed planes on a surface target
air attack
foray, maraud, raid - a sudden short attack
Translations
air raid
n → Luftangriff m
air raid n → incursione f aerea


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On bombing civilian targets (from an interview in the New York Times, 4/8/03) We started the first air raids of this kind, killing a city, with Guernica in the Spanish Civil War.
Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty; Come and join the Nazi party by O'Rourke, P.J. / The Weekly Standard
"I know that you intend to describe in detail to your boys the horrors of war, the gas attacks, the mutilations, the air raids on defenseless civilians, plague, famine--all the Four Horsemen.
The Boy Scouts of Westhampton by Goodman, Paul / Radical Teacher
Although he refers to the air raids as "punishment" (in German the word he uses is Gericht, which comes from juridical language and means "tribunal" or "judgment"), he is also quick to insist, "I have not heard a single person curse the enemies or blame them for the destruction.
Dresden mon amour: realism or revisionism? Germans revisit the war by Isenberg, Noah / Artforum International
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