"rapine" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹæpaɪn/ Audio: En-us-rapine.ogg [US] Forms: rapines [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of rape and ravine. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|rapyne}} Middle English rapyne, {{der|en|fro|rapine}} Old French rapine, {{der|en|la|rapīna}} Latin rapīna, {{doublet|en|rape|ravine}} Doublet of rape and ravine Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rapine (countable and uncountable, plural rapines)
  1. The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (seizure of someone's property by force): կողոպուտ (koġoput) (Armenian), թալան (tʻalan) (Armenian), грабеж (grabež) [masculine] (Bulgarian), roof [masculine] (Dutch), ryöstö (Finnish), rapine [feminine] (French), Raub [masculine] (German), rapīna [feminine] (Latin), грабёж (grabjóž) (Russian), saqueo [masculine] (Spanish), rapiña [feminine] (Spanish), röveri [neuter] (Swedish), plundring [common-gender] (Swedish), rov [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rapine-en-noun-RRXRIlbs

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹæpaɪn/ Audio: En-us-rapine.ogg [US] Forms: rapines [present, singular, third-person], rapining [participle, present], rapined [participle, past], rapined [past]
Etymology: From Middle English rapyne, from Old French rapine, from Latin rapīna, from rapiō. Doublet of rape and ravine. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|rapyne}} Middle English rapyne, {{der|en|fro|rapine}} Old French rapine, {{der|en|la|rapīna}} Latin rapīna, {{doublet|en|rape|ravine}} Doublet of rape and ravine Head templates: {{en-verb}} rapine (third-person singular simple present rapines, present participle rapining, simple past and past participle rapined)
  1. (transitive) To plunder. Tags: transitive Translations (plunder): կողոպտել (koġoptel) (Armenian), թալանել (tʻalanel) (Armenian), ограбвам (ograbvam) (Bulgarian), plunderen (Dutch), ryöstää (Finnish), гра́бить (grábitʹ) (Russian), plundra (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-rapine-en-verb-Bt2pwbuX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ograbvam",
      "sense": "plunder",
      "word": "ограбвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "plunder",
      "word": "plunderen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "plunder",
      "word": "ryöstää"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grábitʹ",
      "sense": "plunder",
      "word": "гра́бить"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "plunder",
      "word": "plundra"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rapine"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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