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rapine

/rap-in, -ahyn/US // ˈræp ɪn, -aɪn //UK // (ˈræpaɪn) //

油菜花,蹂躏,强奸,饶舌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.

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Examples

  • The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.

  • Why hast thou shewn me iniquity and grievance, to see rapine and injustice before me?

  • Nothing is more terrible than a people who, having nothing to lose, fight in the united spirit of rapine and of religion.

  • He gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy.

  • Accordingly, the bishop and the nobles had been forced to renounce their habits of violence and rapine.