/ English Dictionary |
FORAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
Example:
scientists' forays into politics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("foray" is a kind of...):
attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("foray" is a kind of...):
incursion; penetration (an attack that penetrates into enemy territory)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foray"):
air attack; air raid (an attack by armed planes on a surface target)
swoop (a very rapid raid)
Derivation:
foray (briefly enter enemy territory)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they foray ... he / she / it forays
Past simple: forayed
-ing form: foraying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "foray" is one way to...):
penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
foray (a sudden short attack)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
Synonyms:
despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "foray" is one way to...):
take (take by force)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foray"):
deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something