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| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, wasting |
| Antonyms: | boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | piracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | robbery |
| Synonyms: | bootlegging, buccaneering, commandeering, copying, freebooting, hijacking, infringement, marauding, pirating, plagiarism, rapine, stealing, swashbuckling, theft |
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something stolen |
| Synonyms: | booty, goods*, graft, hot goods, loot, make*, pickings, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, rapine, raven, spoil, stuff*, take*, trappings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | gift |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defilement; a forced sexual assault |
| Synonyms: | abduction, abuse, criminal attack, depredation, despoilment, despoliation, forcible violation, maltreatment, molestation, pillage, plunder, plundering, rapine, spoliation, statutory offense, violation |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
| Synonyms: | assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |
| Main Entry: | rapids |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high-current part of river |
| Synonyms: | rapine, river, whitewater |
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