carry off as plunder
61commandeer — v 1. draft, induct, conscript, con scribe, impress, press, Naut. shanghai, crimp; recruit, enlist, Archaic. list, muster in, levy; activate, call up, mobilize. 2. seize, take possession of, expropriate, appropriate, misappropriate, arrogate,… …
62depredate — v 1. plunder, rob, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, pillage, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, carry off, maraud, devastate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle; raid, foray, forage, prey on or upon; lay waste, desolate,… …
63maraud — v 1. pirate, freeboot, buccaneer, privateer, filibuster; seize, capture, steal, thieve, carry off, rape. 2. plunder, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, pillage; ravage, harry, devastate, depredate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle;… …
64seize — v 1. grasp, take hold of, grip, grab, clasp, handle, embrace. 2. understand, comprehend, absorb, digest; catch the idea, Inf. get the hang of, Sl. savvy; know, master, fathom, penetrate, cognize; discern, perceive, recognize. 3. steal, rob,… …
65ravish — rav•ish [[t]ˈræv ɪʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to transport with strong emotion, esp. joy 2) to rape; violate 3) to seize and carry off by force 4) to rob; plunder • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME < MF raviss , long s. of ravir to seize rav′ish•er, n.… …
66reive — v.i. rob; plunder; carry off. ♦ reiver, n …
67loot — n. & v. n. 1 goods taken from an enemy; spoil. 2 booty; illicit gains made by an official. 3 sl. money. v.tr. 1 rob (premises) or steal (goods) left unprotected, esp. after riots or other violent events. 2 plunder or sack (a city, building, etc.) …
68reave — v. (past and past part. reft) archaic 1 tr. a (foll. by of) forcibly deprive of. b (foll. by away, from) take by force or carry off. 2 intr. make raids; plunder; = REIVE. Etymology: OE reafian f. Gmc: cf. ROB …
69rifle — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a gun with a long rifled barrel, esp. one fired from shoulder level. 2 (in pl.) riflemen. v.tr. make spiral grooves in (a gun or its barrel or bore) to make a bullet spin. Phrases and idioms: rifle bird any dark green Australian… …
70direption — də̇ˈrepshən noun ( s) Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin direption , direptio, from direptus (past participle of diripere to tear apart, plunder, from di from dis apart + ripere, from rapere to seize and carry off) + ion …
