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Onslaught vs Foray - What's the difference?

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Onslaught is a related term of foray.


As nouns the difference between onslaught and foray

is that onslaught is a fierce attack while foray is a sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

As a verb foray is

to scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.

onslaught

English

Noun

(wikipedia onslaught) (en noun)
  • A fierce attack.
  • A large quantity of people or things resembling an attack.
    • They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darling , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar. }}

    See also

    * slew

    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.