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forray

forray is the obsolete form of foray.

Meaning of foray

Noun

foray (plural forays)

  1. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
  2. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
    • Bastian Schweinsteiger and Muller were among many who should have added the third, and City were limited to rare forays with the excellent Boateng pinching the ball off Aguero and Aleksandar Kolarov shooting wide in stoppage time.2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport

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Forms of forray

Noun
pluralforrays
Verb
third-person singular presentforrays
present participleforraying
past participleforrayed
pastforrayed

Questions about forray

What is forray the obsolete form of?
Forray is the obsolete form of foray.

Words near forray in the dictionary

  1. forraign
  2. forraine
  3. forrard
  4. forrarder
  5. forrards
  6. forray
  7. forrayed
  8. forraying
  9. forrays
  10. forread
  11. forreads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forray (page history and authors); foray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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