reprisal raid
Frequency: 6.34.5 per million words
A sudden attack on an enemy, carried out as retaliation.
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- The village feared a reprisal raid after the incident.
- The rebels launched a swift reprisal raid on the military outpost.
- Such a reprisal raid would only escalate the conflict.
- They prepared for a potential reprisal raid from the enemy forces.
- The general ordered a reprisal raid in response to the earlier attack.
- Historical records detail numerous reprisal raids between the warring tribes.
- A sudden reprisal raid devastated the border town.
- Fearing a reprisal raid, the inhabitants evacuated their homes.
- The government condemned the reprisal raid as an act of aggression.
- Intelligence reports indicated an imminent reprisal raid.