Thesaurus: rapine

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1. n. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
2. n. Ravishment; rape.
3. v. t. To plunder.
4. n. the act of despoiling a country in warfare
5. 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay. 2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak. To plunder. Sir G. Buck.
6. To plunder. Sir G. Buck.
7. n the act of despoiling a country in warfare