I have to follow a police raid, nearly causing harm (7)
I believe the answer is:
abusive
'i have to follow a police raid nearly causing harm' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'i have to follow a police raid nearly' is the wordplay.
'i have' becomes 'I've' (contraction of 'I have').
'to follow' says to put letters next to each other (some letters go after or follow others).
'police raid' becomes 'bust' (eg a drugs bust).
'nearly' means to remove the last letter.
'a'+'bust'='abust'
'abust' with its last letter removed is 'abus'.
'ive' put after 'abus' is 'ABUSIVE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for abusive that I've seen before include "Swearing loudly" , "Insulting, being harshly critical or offensive" , "Calumniating" , "scathing" , "Defamatory" .)