carry off as plunder
41poach — I verb appropriate, carry off, filch, furtim feras intercipere, make off with, misappropriate, peculate, pilfer, pirate, plunder by stealth, purloin, rifle, run off with, snatch, steal, take by illegal methods, take by unfair methods, take… …
42rifle — I n carbine, shoulder firearm, shotgun, fowling piece, muzzleloader, repeating rifle, magazine rifle, Ordn. breechloader, petronel; musket, blunderbuss, matchlock, harquebus; gun, shooting iron, flintlock, firelock, fusil. II v 1. ransack, sack,… …
43snitch — [n] informer betrayer, blabbermouth*, canary*, deep throat*, double crosser, fink*, informant, narc*, nark*, rat*, sneak, snitcher, source, squealer*, stoolie*, stool pigeon*, tattler, tattletale, tipster*, turncoat, weasel*, whistle blower;… …
44pillage — Synonyms and related words: abduct, appropriate, arrogate, assault, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, booty, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, buccaneering, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, confiscate, defilement, demolish, demolition,… …
45Nabonidus — in relief showing him praying to the moon, sun and Venus …
46despoil — v 1. plunder, pillage, rob, spoliate, Archaic. spoil, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, ravish, depredate; raid, forage, ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, rifle; desecrate, defile, outrage, violate. 2. devastate, lay waste,… …
47rape — n 1.{all usu. in reference to sexual relations) assault, attack, violation, molestation, ravishment; defilement, seduction; abuse, maltreatment, ill usage; deflowering devirgination, Obs. constupration, Obs. stupration. 2.(usu. of persons)… …
48Direption — Di*rep tion, n. [L. direptio, fr. diripere to tear asunder, plunder; di = dis + rapere to seize and carry off.] The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed. [1913 Webster] …
49Rapacious — Ra*pa cious (r[.a]*p[=a] sh[u^]s), a. [L. rapax, acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. The downfall of the… …
50Rapaciously — Rapacious Ra*pa cious (r[.a]*p[=a] sh[u^]s), a. [L. rapax, acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See {Rapid}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. The downfall of… …
