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foray
English
Alternative forms
- forrey (15th century)
Etymology
From Middle English forrayen (“to pillage”), a back-formation of forrayour, forreour, forrier (“raider, pillager”), from Old French forrier, fourrier, a derivative of fuerre (“provender, fodder, straw”), from Frankish *f?dar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (“fodder, feed, sheath”), from Proto-Indo-European *patrom (“fodder”), *pat- (“to feed”), *p?y- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English f?dor, f?þor (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóður (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food, forage.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f?.?e?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f???.e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
foray (plural forays)
- A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
- A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
Translations
Verb
foray (third-person singular simple present forays, present participle foraying, simple past and past participle forayed)
- (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
- (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.
Translations
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bombardment
English
Etymology
bombard +? -ment
Noun
bombardment (countable and uncountable, plural bombardments)
- the act of bombing, especially towns or cities
- heavy artillery fire
- (physics) the incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bombardment.
Derived terms
- Late Heavy Bombardment
Translations
See also
- bombard
- bombarded
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