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Definition of Foray

1. Noun. A sudden short attack.

2. Verb. Steal goods; take as spoils. "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

3. Noun. An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence). "Scientists' forays into politics"

4. Verb. Briefly enter enemy territory.

Definition of Foray

1. n. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

2. v. t. To pillage; to ravage.

Definition of Foray

1. Noun. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. ¹

2. Noun. A brief excursion or attempt especially outside one's accustomed sphere. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foray

1. to raid [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: raid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foray

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forane foraneous forasmuch forasmuch as foravirumab foray (current term) foray into forayed forayer forayers

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Literary usage of Foray

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recollections of Seventy Years by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1909)
"CHAPTER IX Aftermath of the John Brown foray SO important and so thrilling an interlude in my youthful life as the John Brown foray, not merely into ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"A ZULU foray. “True, ‘tie pity; pity ‘tie, ‘tie true? ... description I have ever, heard of a Zulu foray into the territories of a neighbouring potentate. ..."

3. Spanish Papers by Washington Irving (1883)
"How the Count of Castile and the King of Leon make a Tri umphant foray into the Moorish Country ... Having accomplished this triumphant foray, they returned ..."

4. History of the Moorish Empire in Europe by Samuel Parsons Scott (1904)
"... of that City and Repulse of the Moors—Sedition at Granada—Ferdinand routed at Loja—foray of Muley Hassan—Expedition to the ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"An annual week's meeting or foray will be held at some place previously determined at the annual meeting. Mr. George Massée, Royal Herbarium, Kew, ..."

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