verb
- Steal goods; take as spoils.
- usage: "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way.
- usage: "Who rifled through my desk drawers"
adjective
- Of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel. .
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