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FORAY INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foray into mean? 

FORAY INTO (verb)
  The verb FORAY INTO has 1 sense:

1. enter someone else's territory and take spoilsplay

  Familiarity information: FORAY INTO used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FORAY INTO (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter someone else's territory and take spoils

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

foray into; raid

Context example:

The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly

Hypernyms (to "foray into" is one way to...):

encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "foray into"):

maraud (raid and rove in search of booty)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


Born to be a hunter of meat (though he did not know it), he blundered upon meat just outside his own cave-door on his first foray into the world.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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