counterraid
A raid carried out in response to another raid.
Noun
- A raid carried out in response to another raid.
- 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. - 2010, John Dos Passos,...
Origin
From counter- + raid.
Forms
Verb
- To carry out a counterraid.