foray – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
foray
v.
raid, attack; invade
n.
raid, quick attack; excursion, experimental attempt
Foray
foray
Noun
1. a sudden short attack
(synonym) raid, maraud
(hypernym) penetration, incursion
(hyponym) air raid, air attack
2. an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
(hypernym) attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
Verb
1. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
(synonym) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage
(hypernym) take
(hyponym) deplume, displume
2. briefly enter enemy territory
(hypernym) penetrate, perforate
(derivation) raid, maraud
foray
n.
حملہ, دوڑ, تاخت, ہلہ, چڑھائي
foray
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.