raider
/ˈreɪdə
/noun
1A person who attacks an enemy in their territory; a marauder: Scandinavian raiders put down their roots in Cumbria...
- Their country's withdrawal of troops from the rebel republic of Chechnya is the key demand of the raiders.
- The new raiders were even more dangerous than their ninth-century ancestors.
- In a passage on the war years, he includes the story about the single German air raider firing on the fish shop.
Synonyms
attacker, assailant;
robber, burglar, thief, housebreaker;
plunderer, pillager, looter, marauder, ransacker, sacker, invader
archaic reaver
1.1A person who attacks business premises in order to steal: masked raiders burst into the 100-seater restaurant...
- In the same year, the police sergeant was fatally stabbed by raiders outside a post office in New Addington, Surrey.
- He declined to give exact details of the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the raiders.
- On Thursday morning last Ardagh Post Office was broken into by a number of raiders who fled away in the direction of Rathkeale.
Rhymes
- linear perspective
- linear programming
- linear search
- line astern
- lineation
- linebacker
- line break
- line breeding
- line-caught
- line cut
- line dance
- line-dance
- line dancer
- line dancing
- line defect
- line drawing
- line drive
- line-engraved
- line engraver
- line engraving
- linefeed
- linefish
- line fishing
- line-for-line
- line-in