About The Word Foray
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Foray
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What's The Definition Of Foray?
[n] an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
[n] a sudden short attack [v] briefly enter enemy territory [v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonyms | Synonyms for Foray: despoil | loot | maraud | pillage | plunder | raid | ransack | reave | rifle | strip Related Terms | Find terms related to Foray: air attack | air raid | air strike | banditry | board | boarding | brigandage | brigandism | depredate | depredation | despoil | despoiling | despoilment | despoliation | direption | escalade | fire raid | fleece | forage | foraging | freeboot | freebooting | gut | harass | harry | incursion | inroad | inundate | invade | invasion | irruption | loot | looting | make a raid | make an inroad | maraud | marauding | overrun | overswarm | overwhelm | pillage | pillaging | plunder | plundering | prey on | raid | raiding | ransack | ransacking | rape | rapine | ravage | ravagement | ravaging | raven | ravish | ravishment | razzia | reive | reiving | rifle | rifling | sack | sacking | saturation raid | scale | scale the walls | scaling | shuttle raid | spoil | spoiling | spoliate | spoliation | storm | sweep | take by storm See Also | air attack | air raid | attempt | deplume | displume | effort | endeavor | endeavour | incursion | penetrate | penetration | perforate | swoop | take | try Foray In Webster's Dictionary \For"ay\ (?; 277), n. [Another form of forahe. Cf.
{Forray}.]
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any
irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. --Spenser.
The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling
eyes of prey. --Tennyson.
\For"ay\, v. t. To pillage; to ravage. He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott. |
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