counterraid

English

Etymology

counter- +‎ raid

Noun

counterraid (plural counterraids)

1. A raid carried out in response to another raid.
   • 2010, John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed, page 99:

     England was a confusion of warring camps, where families and towns and countrysides were split into hating factions; everywhere there was treason and countertreason, and raid and counterraid.

Verb

counterraid (third-person singular simple present counterraids, present participle counterraiding, simple past and past participle counterraided)

1. To carry out a counterraid.