1. A sudden short attack
   - raid, maraud 
2. An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
   "scientists' forays into politics"

1. Steal goods; take as spoils
   - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage 
2. Briefly enter enemy territory

Derived forms: forayed, forays, foraying

Type of: attempt, effort, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], incursion, penetrate, penetration, perforate, take, try

Encyclopedia: Foray

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