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  1. 1. n. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Ravishment; rape. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To plunder. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. the act of despoiling a country in warfare Source: wordnet
  5. 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. Source: webster
  6. 6. To plunder. Sir G. Buck. Source: adambom
  7. 7. n the act of despoiling a country in warfare Source: ecdict

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