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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ransack |
| Synonyms: | burglarize, burgle, despoil, go through, grab, gut, loot, pillage, plunder, rip, rip off, rob, rummage, sack, smash and grab, strip, take, tip over, trash*, waste* |
| Notes: | a riffle (noun) is a small wave on the surface of a liquid - (verb) to thumb through or look through a book or other written material; a rifle (noun) is a firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore - (verb) to steal goods or search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way |
| Antonyms: | order, organize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | firearm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gun |
| Synonyms: | handgun, heat*, musket, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, weapon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fleece |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, steal |
| Synonyms: | bleed, burn*, cheat*, clip, con, cozen, defraud, despoil, flimflam, gouge, hustle, jerk around, milk, mulct, overcharge, pluck, rifle, rip off, rob, rook, rope in, run a game on, sell a bill of goods, shaft*, strip, swindle, take for a ride, take to the cleaners |
| Antonyms: | give, offer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weapon that shoots |
| Synonyms: | 9 mm., Saturday-night special, Uzi, blaster, cannon, difference*, equalizer, flintlock, forty-five, handgun, hardware, howitzer, magnum, mortar, musket, ordnance, peashooter, persuader, piece*, pistol, revolver, rifle, rod, shotgun, thirty-eight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean out, strip |
| Synonyms: | bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate, exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | knock off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | filch, knock over, loot, pilfer, pinch, plunder, purloin, ransack, relieve, rifle, rip off, rob, thieve |
| Antonyms: | give |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
| Main Entry: | pillage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, destroy |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, arrogate, confiscate, depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, gut, invade, lay waste, lift*, loot, maraud, nab, pilfer, pinch*, purloin, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle, rob, ruin, sack, spoil, spoliate, steal, strip, thieve, trespass, waste |
| Antonyms: | protect, safeguard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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