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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Foray has 2 senses
- foray(n = noun.act) maraud, raid - a sudden short attack; Array has particulars: air attack, air raid, swoop
- foray(n = noun.act) Array - an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics" is a kind of attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
is a kind of incursion, penetration
Derived form verb foray2
Verb Foray has 2 senses
- foray(v = verb.possession) despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" is one way to take
- foray(v = verb.contact) Array - briefly enter enemy territory; Array is one way to penetrate, perforate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun foray1
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
Foray, 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. [1913 Webster]
"The huge Earl Doorm, . . .
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey." [1913 Webster]
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey." [1913 Webster]
Foray, v. t.
To pillage; to ravage. [1913 Webster]
"He might foray our lands."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Foray, n. & v.
--n. a sudden attack; a raid or incursion.
--v.intr. make or go on a foray.
--n. a sudden attack; a raid or incursion.
--v.intr. make or go on a foray.
Etymology
ME, prob. earlier as verb: back-form. f. forayer f. OF forrier forager, rel. to FODDER
THESAURUS
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 stormROGET THESAURUS
Foray
Attack
N attack, assault, assault and battery, onset, onslaught, charge, aggression, offense, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, outbreak, estrapade, ruade, coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade, raid, foray, run at, run against, dead set at, storm, storming, boarding, escalade, siege, investment, obsession, bombardment, cannonade, fire, volley, platoon fire, file fire, fusillade, sharpshooting, broadside, raking fire, cross fire, volley of grapeshot, whiff of the grape, feu d'enfer, cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado, carte and tierce, home thrust, coupe de bec, kick, punch, battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade, devastation, eboulement, assailant, aggressor, invader, base of operations, point of attack, echelon, attacking, aggressive, offensive, obsidional, up in arms, on the offensive, Int, up and at them!, the din of arms, the yell of savage rage, the shriek of agony, the groan of death, their fatal hands no second stroke intend, thirst for glory quells the love of life.Stealing
N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.
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