A sudden short attack.

synonyms: maraud, raid.

Roget 716: attack; assault, assault and battery; onset, onslaught, charge.    aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak; estrapade^†, ruade^†; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade^†, raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.    storm, storming; boarding, escalade^†; siege, investment, obsession^†, bombardment, cannonade.    fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting, broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer [Fr.].    cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado^†, carte and tierce [Fr.], home thrust; coupe de bec [Fr.]; kick, punch etc. (impulse) 276.    battue^†, razzia^†, Jacquerie, dragonnade^†; devastation etc. 162; eboulement [Fr.].    assailant, aggressor, invader.    base of operations, point of attack; echelon.    ... show more

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny^†, direption^†; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism^†; latrocinium^†.    spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^†; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.    piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.    filibustering, filibusterism^†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].    robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.    peculation, embezzlement; fraud etc. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.    thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.    blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].    [person who commits theft] thief etc. 792.    ... show more

Dutch: onverwachte aanval, hold-up, holdup, overval, roofoverval
Polish: wypad

An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence).

Dutch: raid

Steal goods; take as spoils.

synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip.

Dutch: ontvreemden, brandschatten, roven, plunderen, beroven, uitschudden

Briefly enter enemy territory.