Raid and Seize

Raid

Raid verb - Take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock.

Usage example: T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies

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Seize and raid are semantically related in victimize topic. In some cases you can use "Seize" instead a verb "Raid".

Nearby Words: raided, raider, raiding

Seize verb - To have a clear idea of.

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Raid and seize are semantically related in victimize topic. Sometimes you can use "Raid" instead a verb "Seize".

Nearby Words: seizure, seizing, seised

estate	raid estate	seize estate
station	raid station	seize station
base	raid base	seize base
house	raid house	seize house
Other words: world, building, home, kingdom, ship, depot, castle, town, city, island, worlds, planets, ships, cities.

Theon's plans are this as as well (He did seize Winterfell, but failed to hold it, and the raid on Casterly Rock is successful, but he gets captured).

Source: Fanfic / Ned Stark Lives
The raid to seize Randall McCoy not only fails to capture Randall but results in in the deaths of two of Randall's remaining children Gone Horribly Right: Frank Philips is the right man to send after the Hatfields but his brutal methods escalate the conflict.

Source: Series / Hatfields & McCoys
Less than a decade later, the watergeuzen (Water Beggars) had proceeded to seize several key cities in the north, raid several Spanish fleets, and set off a full-scale religious and political rebellion against the Spanish crown that would last eighty years before ending in Dutch independence.

Source: Insult Backfire

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