Definitions for rapine

rapine rap·ine

Spelling: [rap-in, -ahyn]
IPA: /ˈræp ɪn, -aɪn/

Rapine is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in rapine (aeinpr).

Definitions for rapine

noun

  1. the violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; plunder.

Origin of rapine

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin rapīna robbery, pillage. See rape1, -ine2

Examples for rapine

He was the worthy son of a family of scoundrels, and lived by theft and rapine.

The benignant laws of the Incas were replaced by the rapine of the conquerors.

The city is now a very hell of drunkenness, rapine, fire, and smoke.

Little did she suspect that they were beacon-fires calling to deeds of blood and rapine.

Plunder, rapine, and luxury took the place of duty performed.

Let them not fail to find for it task after task of blood and rapine.

Night is, in fact, their true time for rapine and desperate deeds.

You've a thousand years of quarrels, of fighting and rapine behind you.

What a setting of blood and lust and flame and rapine for such a hero!

The Pirate-Colonel replied, in a courageous voice, "By rapine!"

Word Value for rapine
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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