rap·ine /ˈræpən, ˌpaɪn/
搶奪,掠奪
Rap·ine n.
1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. --Macaulay.
2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.]
Rap·ine, v. t. To plunder.
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rapine
n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape]