foray

foray
    n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: {foray}, {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}, {foray}]
    2: briefly enter enemy territory
    

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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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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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