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What is an air-raid?

What is an air-raid? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (often attributive) Alternative form of air raid
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When World War Two broke out Jack was called up and Dorothy took over the round and was also an air-raid warden one day a week.
I ran home and told dad and, as he was an air-raid warden, he knew what to do.
This was sounded whenever German planes passed over the coastline to give us and our air-raid wardens time to go to the basement for shelter.
A communal air-raid shelter had been dug outside the Eleventh Earl public house.
No noise in the sky, but a wail of sirens constantly around the park, so steady that they sounded like air-raid alarms in the London blitz.
The vaults were last used 60 years ago as air-raid shelters when Hitler's bombs rained down during the Second World War.

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