rifled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb steal goods; take as spoils
    pillage; strip; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
    • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
  2. verb go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
    go; rifle.
    • Who rifled through my desk drawers?
  3. adjective of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel

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