foray

noun

1. a sudden short attack

Similar word(s): maraud, raid

Definition categories: act, incursion, penetration

2. an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)

- scientists' forays into politics

Definition categories: act, attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try

verb

1. steal goods; take as spoils

Similar word(s): despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

Definition categories: possession, take

2. briefly enter enemy territory

Definition categories: contact, penetrate, perforate