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S: (n) foray (an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)) "scientists' forays into politics"

S: (v) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray (steal goods; take as spoils) "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

S: (v) take (take by force) "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill"

S: (v) rescue (take forcibly from legal custody) "rescue prisoners"
S: (v) scale (take by attacking with scaling ladders) "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"
S: (v) extort (obtain through intimidation)
S: (v) assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate (seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession) "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"
S: (v) recapture, retake (take back by force, as after a battle) "The military forces managed to recapture the fort"
S: (v) relieve (take by stealing) "The thief relieved me of $100"
S: (v) steal, rip off, rip (take without the owner's consent) "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
S: (v) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray (steal goods; take as spoils) "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
S: (v) sack, plunder (plunder (a town) after capture) "the barbarians sacked Rome"