Advertisement

Advertisement

View definitions for rapine

rapine

verb as in despoil

Strong match

Weak match

Discover More

Example Sentences

The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me?

Nothing is more terrible than a people who, having nothing to lose, fight in the united spirit of rapine and of religion.

He gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy.

Accordingly, the bishop and the nobles had been forced to renounce their habits of violence and rapine.

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement