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| Main Entry: | sortie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armed attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, charge, invasion, mission, offense, raid, rush, sally*, strike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foray |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incursion, attempt |
| Synonyms: | attack, depredation, descent, inroad, invasion, irruption, raid, reconnaissance, sally, sortie |
| Antonyms: | abstention, idleness, laziness |
| Main Entry: | mission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's task, responsibility |
| Synonyms: | aim, assignment, business, calling, charge, commission, duty, end, errand, goal, job, lifework, object, objective, office, operation, profession, purpose, pursuit, quest, sortie, trade, trust, undertaking, vocation, work |
| Main Entry: | outbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sudden happening |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blowup, brawl, break, breaking, burst, bursting, commencement, commotion, convulsion, crack, crash, dawn, detonation, discharge, disorder, disruption, effervescence, epidemic, eruption, explosion, fit, flare-up, flash, fury, gush, gushing, insurrection, irruption, mutiny, onset, outburst, outpouring, paroxysm, plague, rebellion, revolution, roar, sally, sortie, spasm, spurt, storm, surge, thunder, tumult, uprising, volley, ebullition, rending, sundering |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale |
| Main Entry: | raid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack, seizure |
| Synonyms: | arrest, assault, bust, capture, descent, foray, incursion, inroad, invasion, irruption, onset, onslaught, pull, reconnaissance, roundup, sally*, sortie*, sweep, break-in, forced entrance, hit-and-run, shootup, surprise attack, tipover |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revenge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | retaliation for wrong, grievance |
| Synonyms: | animus, attack, eye for an eye*, fight, ill will, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, satisfaction, sortie, tit for tat*, vengeance, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, getting even, implacability, ruthlessness, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Notes: | revenge is personal and justice is societal |
| Antonyms: | forgiveness, pardon, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | battle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military fight |
| Synonyms: | action, assault, attack, barrage, bloodshed, bombing, brush, campaign, carnage, clash, combat, conflict, contention, crusade, encounter, engagement, fighting, fray, havoc, hostility, onset, onslaught, press, ravage, scrimmage, skirmish, sortie, strife, struggle, war, warfare, blitzkreig, significant contact |
| Antonyms: | truce |
| Main Entry: | dash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fast race for short distance |
| Synonyms: | bolt, dart, haste, onset, run, rush, sortie, sprint, spurt, zip, birr |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | assault, blitz, invasion, onset, onslaught, outbreak, push, rush, sortie, blitzkrieg, mugging |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
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