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Foray vs Storming - What's the difference?

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Foray is a related term of storming.


As nouns the difference between foray and storming

is that foray is a sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid while storming is the act by which something is stormed.

As verbs the difference between foray and storming

is that foray is to scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc while storming is .

foray

English

(wikipedia foray)

Alternative forms

* forrey

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 27 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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. }}

    Verb

  • To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
  • *:
    • Thenne on a tyme the kynge called syr florence a knyght / and sayd to hym they lacked vytaylle / and not ferre from hens ben grete forestes and woodes / wherin ben many of myn enemyes with moche bestyayl / I wyl that thou make the redy and goo thyder in foreyeng / and take with the syr Gawayn my neuew
  • To pillage; to ravage.

    • storming

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is stormed.
    • the stormings of cities throughout history
  • The act of one who storms or rages.
  • * 1840 , The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register
    • He fumed, and threatened, and stormed; but his fumings, and threatenings, and stormings , were powerless to turn from him the keen edge of public ridicule.