Meaning of FORAY
| Pronunciation: | | 'forey
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| | See Also: | | air attack, air raid, attempt, deplume, displume, effort, endeavor, endeavour, incursion, penetrate, penetration, perforate, swoop, take, try | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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