rapine

[rap·ine]

Use the noun rapine when you're talking about the deliberate destruction of a town or country during war, especially when it involves theft.

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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

Rap"ine , n. [F. rapine; cf. Pr. & It. rapina; all fr. L. rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid, and cf. Raven rapine.] 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.

2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.

Rapine

Rap"ine, v. t. To plunder. Sir G. Buck.

The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

To plunder.

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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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