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foray
Overview of noun foray
The noun foray has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. foray, raid, maraud -- (a sudden short attack)
2. foray -- (an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics")
Overview of verb foray
The verb foray has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")
2. foray -- (briefly enter enemy territory)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
=> penetration, incursion
=> attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
=> operation, military operation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
foray
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun foray
1 of 2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
=> air raid, air attack
=> swoop
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
=> penetration, incursion
Sense 2
foray
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
Antonyms of noun foray
Member Holonyms of noun foray
Substance Holonyms of noun foray
Part Holonyms of noun foray
Member Meronyms of noun foray
Substance Meronyms of noun foray
Part Meronyms of noun foray
Meronyms of noun foray
Holonyms of noun foray
Attributes of noun foray
Derived Forms of noun foray
1 of 2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
RELATED TO>(verb) foray#2
=> foray
Domain of noun foray
Domain Terms of noun foray
Familiarity of noun foray
foray used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
> penetration, incursion
=> interpenetration
=> breakthrough
=> invasion
=> infiltration
=> foray, raid, maraud
Sense 2
foray
> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> batting
=> best
=> worst
=> bid, play
=> crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer
=> essay
=> foray
=> contribution, part, share
=> liberation
=> mug's game
=> power play, squeeze play, squeeze
=> seeking
=> shot, stab
=> shot
=> striving, nisus, pains, strain
=> struggle, battle
=> takeover attempt
=> test, trial, run
=> test, trial
Meronyms of noun foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
foray, raid, maraud
=> penetration, incursion
=> attack, onslaught, onset, onrush
HAS PART: assault
Holonyms of noun foray
Grep of noun foray
foray
Antonyms of verb foray
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
Sense 2
foray
=> penetrate, perforate
=> enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb foray
1 of 2 senses of foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> deplume, displume
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
Sense 2
foray
=> penetrate, perforate
'Cause To' of verb foray
Derived Forms of verb foray
1 of 2 senses of foray
Sense 2
foray
RELATED TO>(noun) foray#1
=> foray, raid, maraud
Domain of verb foray
Domain Terms of verb foray
Familiarity of verb foray
foray used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
foray
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb foray
2 senses of foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
> take
=> rescue
=> scale
=> extort
=> assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate
=> recapture, retake
=> relieve
=> steal
=> plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> sack, plunder
Sense 2
foray
> penetrate, perforate
=> probe, dig into, poke into
=> cut
=> interpenetrate, permeate
=> strike
=> break
=> foray
=> poke into
=> sneak in, creep in
=> permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
=> honeycomb
=> pierce
=> pierce, thrust
=> pierce
=> tunnel
=> percolate, sink in, permeate, filter
=> ingrain, grain
=> immerse, plunge
=> storm, force
=> ooze through
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb foray
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
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Sense 2
foray
=> penetrate, perforate
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Grep of verb foray
foray
foray into
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