air raid

noun

: an attack by armed airplanes on a surface target
usually hyphenated when used attributively
air-raid shelter

Examples of air raid in a Sentence

Much of the city was destroyed in an air raid.
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If anything, phonk radiates a pure anti-politics, a cursed air raid siren for the polycrisis. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 Mar. 2025 All of western Ukraine -- and much of the rest of the country -- was placed under air raid alerts in the early hours of Tuesday. David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025 Meanwhile, all of Ukraine was under air raid alerts early Tuesday after the country's air force warned of Russian missile attacks, which prompted scrambling of Polish aircraft and of other allies over Polish airspace. Richard Engel, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025 Kyiv Under Fire In Kyiv, where the air raid alert lasted over nine hours, missile debris fell in one of the city's neighborhoods, officials said. Amir Daftari, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for air raid

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of air raid was in 1909

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“Air raid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20raid. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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air raid

noun
: an attack by armed airplanes on a surface target

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