Foray: alternatives and connections

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.

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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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Taken.

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

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To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

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The act of plundering.

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To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

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The act of pillaging; robbery.

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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

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To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

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To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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