All foraying synonyms
forΒ·ay
F f verb foraying
- badger β A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
- destroy β To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- burn β If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
- raid β a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed: a police raid on a gambling ring.
- tease β to irritate or provoke with persistent petty distractions, trifling raillery, or other annoyance, often in sport.
- intimidate β to make timid; fill with fear.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- persecute β to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religious or political beliefs, ethnic or racial origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- heckle β to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
- hassle β a disorderly dispute.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- violate β to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
- plunder β to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
- pillage β to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
- ravage β to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
- occupy β to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- breach β If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- storm β Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ΛteΙͺ ΙΛdΙr ΛvΙlt sΙn/ (Show IPA), 1817β88, German poet and novelist.
- infect β to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- penetrate β to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
- loot β spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- infest β to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
- overrun β to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- swamp β a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- overwhelm β to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- rout β a bellow.
- massacre β the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- devastate β If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
- rob β to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- liberate β to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
- requisition β the act of requiring or demanding.
- salvage β the act of saving a ship or its cargo from perils of the seas.
- bomb β A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
- bombard β If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
- blockade β A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
- invade β to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
- swoop β to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
- strafe β to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- consume β If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- shatter β to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- disrupt β to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- maraud β to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty: Freebooters were marauding all across the territory.
- bait β Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.