rapine
/rap-in, -ahyn/US // ˈræp ɪn, -aɪn //UK // (ˈræpaɪn) //
油菜花,蹂躏,强奸,饶舌
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.
Synonyms & Antonyms
verbdespoil
Examples
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.
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