Use the noun rapine when you're talking about the deliberate destruction of a town or country during war, especially when it involves theft.
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Noun
the act of despoiling a country in warfare
n.
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of
things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
n.
Ravishment; rape.
v. t.
To plunder.
Rapine
Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.2.
Rapine
The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
To plunder.
Usage Examples
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
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