rapine

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rap=ine

CIDE DICTIONARY

rapine, 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.].

•  The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.  [1913 Webster]

  "Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory."  [1913 Webster]
•  Ravishment; rape.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

rapine, v. t. 

 To plunder.  Sir G. Buck.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rapine, n. rhet. plundering, robbery.

Etymology

ME f. OF or f. L rapina f. rapere seize

ROGET THESAURUS

rapine

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.