Definitions for foray

foray for·ay

Spelling: [fawr-ey, for-ey]
IPA: /ˈfɔr eɪ, ˈfɒr eɪ/

Foray is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in foray (afory).

Definitions for foray

noun

  1. a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder:
  2. a quick, sudden attack:
  3. an initial venture:

verb (used with object)

  1. to ravage in search of plunder; pillage.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a raid; pillage; maraud.
  2. to invade or make one's way, as for profit or adventure:

Origin of foray

1350-1400; Middle English forraien, apparently by back formation from forrayour, forreour, forrier Old French forrier, fourrier, equivalent to fo(u)rr(er), derivative of fuerre provender (see

Examples for foray

Nor did such office of leader outlast a foray or a campaign.

So far, Ready for Hillary's foray into off-year elections is mixed.

But Jeff, who began his foray into pot gastronomy as a hobby, is rapidly turning it into a full-time pot-repreneurial business.

The season of the foray had opened and flocks must be guarded by day and night.

Hourani credits Grumbach for his foray into the haute couture world, first asking him to become an invited member of the Chambre.

He claims his foray with smack was explicitly for research and meant to be short-term, but he became addicted.

He would not go to foray, after the fashion of outlaws, and there was no need of this.

The foray was a crazy idea, and Shann wondered again why he had agreed to it.

He determined, therefore, on every account, to make a foray into Macedon.

This is the publication's first foray into eCommerce after launching a shopable holiday gift guide last year.

Word Value for foray
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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