Foray

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foray \For"ay\ (f[o^]r"[asl] or f[-o]*r[=a]"; 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.
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           The huge Earl Doorm, . . .
           Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey.  --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foray \For"ay\, v. t.
     To pillage; to ravage.
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           He might foray our lands.                --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foray
       n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: {raid}, {maraud}]
       2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of
          competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
       v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
            looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
            [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle},
             {ransack}, {pillage}]
       2: briefly enter enemy territory

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "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