Associations to the word «Rapine»

Wiktionary

RAPINE, noun. The seizure of someone's property by force; pillage, plunder.
RAPINE, verb. To plunder.

Dictionary definition

RAPINE, noun. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King