'Foray' definitions:
Definition of 'foray'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
verb
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, foray]
verb
Briefly enter enemy territory
Definition of 'Foray'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Foray'
From: GCIDE
- Foray \For"ay\, v. t. To pillage; to ravage. [1913 Webster]
- He might foray our lands. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foray'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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