Dictionary Entry
rifle
rifle is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- 2transitive verb
To strip; to rob; to pillage.
- 3transitive verb
To raffle.
- 4intransitive verb
To raffle.
- 5intransitive verb
To commit robbery.
- 6noun
A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket.
- 7noun
A body of soldiers armed with rifles.
- 8noun
A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
- 9transitive verb
To grove; to channel; especially, to groove internally with spiral channels; as, to rifle a gun barrel or a cannon.
- 10transitive verb
To whet with a rifle. See Rifle., 3.
- 11noun
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
"he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
- 12verb
go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
"Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
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- 13verb
steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
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