Synonyms of the word

despoil

• v. (transitive) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
• v. (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
• v. (obsolete, transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
• n. (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

foray

• n. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a…
• n. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
• v. (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
• v. (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.

loot

• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum…
• n. The act of plundering.
• n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
• n. (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents.
• n. (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
• v. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
• v. To steal from.
• v. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

pillage

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• n. The spoils of war.
• n. The act of pillaging.

plunder

• v. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
• v. (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
• v. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
• v. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
• v. To take unexpectedly.
• n. An instance of plundering.
• n. The loot attained by plundering.
• n. (slang, dated) baggage; luggage.

ransack

• v. (transitive) To loot or pillage. See also sack.
• v. (transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something,…
• v. (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
• v. To violate; to ravish; to deflower.

rape

• n. (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
• n. (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
• n. The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will;…
• n. (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
• n. (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
• n. (slang) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.).
• v. (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
• v. (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their…
• v. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
• v. (US slang, chiefly Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
• n. (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
• n. (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
• adv. (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
• n. Rapeseed, Brassica napus.
• n. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
• n. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
• n. (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.

reave

• v. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
• v. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

rifle

• n. A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
• n. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
• v. To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
• v. To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle).
• v. To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and…
• v. To strike something with great power.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
• v. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
• v. To raffle.

ruin

• n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
• n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
• n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
• n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
• n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
• v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
• v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
• v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
• v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

take

• v. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
• v. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove.
• v. (transitive) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
• v. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
• v. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
• v. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
• v. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
• v. (transitive) To consume.
• v. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
• v. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
• v. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
• v. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).
• v. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
• v. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
• v. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
• v. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
• v. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).
• v. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
• v. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
• v. (transitive, of cloth, paper, etc) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to…
• v. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
• v. (transitive) To require.
• v. (transitive) To proceed to fill.
• v. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).
• v. (transitive) To avail oneself of.
• v. (transitive) To perform, to do.
• v. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
• v. (transitive) To bind oneself by.
• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
• v. (transitive) To have or take recourse to.
• v. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
• v. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
• v. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
• v. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).
• v. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
• v. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
• v. (transitive) To deal with.
• v. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow…
• v. (transitive, grammar) To have an be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
• v. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
• v. (intransitive) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
• v. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
• v. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, give (something) to (someone).
• v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or…
• n. The or an act of taking.
• n. Something that is taken; a haul.
• n. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.
• n. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
• n. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a…
• n. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
• n. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response…
• n. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
• n. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
• n. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.