rifle
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore (Freq. 75)
- he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired
• Hypernyms:
firearm, piece, small-arm
• Hyponyms:
carbine, Garand rifle, Garand, M-1, M-1 rifle,
sniper rifle, precision rifle, Winchester
• Part Meronyms:
bolt, pump action, slide action, rifle butt
1. steal goods;
take as spoils (Freq. 1)
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
• Syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip,
ransack, pillage, foray
• Derivationally related forms:
pillage (for: pillage), pillager (for: pillage), pillaging (for: pillage), looter (for: loot), loot (for: loot), looting (for: loot), despoilment (for: despoil), despoliation (for: despoil), despoiler (for: despoil), plunderer (for: plunder), plunder (for: plunder), plundering (for: plunder)
• Hypernyms:
take
• Hyponyms:
deplume, displume
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. go through in search of something;
search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
- Who rifled through my desk drawers?
• Syn:
go
• Hypernyms:
search
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- The men rifle the area for animals
- The men rifle for animals in the area
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