Meaning & use
rapine
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The violent seizure of someone's property; plunder, especially during war.
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The invading army left a trail of rapine and destruction across the countryside.
Historians described the conquest as an era of rapine, with villages stripped of their goods.
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A formal, mostly literary or historical word, rarely used in everyday conversation.
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