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Air raid   /ɛr reɪd/   Listen
Air raid

noun
1.
An attack by armed planes on a surface target.  Synonym: air attack.






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"Air raid" Quotes from Famous Books



... rushed away from the hordes of the enemy soldiers. We helped to place them into Red Cross vans to be taken to a safe place in the southern part of the country. As we were putting them into the vans the signal came that an air raid was on. The subways are places for refuge during the raids, so we hurried them out of the vans and into subways. They all got in safely but I was a bit too slow. I got knocked out and my right leg was so badly splintered that I'm better off without it. The thing ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers



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