foray

Noun

• an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
  • scientists' forays into politics
    

• a sudden short attack

Verb

• briefly enter enemy territory

• steal goods; take as spoils
  • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  raid , maraud , plunder , despoil , loot , reave , strip , rifle , ransack , pillage