Synonyms for Rifle
ˈraɪ fəlri·fle

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1. rifleverb

   a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore

   "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"

2. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

   steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

   Synonyms:
   foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, despoil, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, plunder, bare, pillage, disinvest

3. rifle, goverb

   go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way

   "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"

   Synonyms:
   drop dead, pop off, operate, belong, buy the farm, give-up the ghost, work, choke, go away, get, rifle, die, sound, get going, kick the bucket, run, plunder, function, lead, endure, plump, live, pass away, pillage, run short, survive, croak, live on, move, extend, conk, ransack, decease, become, run low, conk out, loot, break, proceed, last, despoil, give out, break down, go, depart, give way, hold up, snuff it, fit, pass, hold out, start, foray, fail, locomote, travel, blend, exit, perish, blend in, reave, cash in one's chips, expire, strip, go bad

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1. rifleverb

   Synonyms:
   seize, snatch away, carry off

2. rifleverb

   Synonyms:
   rob, pillage, plunder, strip, despoil, fleece

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1. rifleverb

   Synonyms:
   strip, fleece, despoil, pillage, devastate

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1. List of paraphrases for "rifle":

   shotgun, gun, rifles, fusiliers, carabinieri, musket, venice, gat, weapon, carabineros, riflemen, riffle

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How to use Rifle in a sentence?

1. Peter King:

   It's sort of a knee-jerk reaction, the National Rifle Association is strongly opposed to it, and the fact is we have only a handful of Republican co-sponsors.

2. Otero County:

   I’m gonna leave either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve got a .357 Henry Big Boy rifle lever action that I’ve got in the trunk of my car and I’ve got a .357 single action revolver, the Colt Ruger Vaquero that I’ll have underneath the front seat on my right side and I will embrace my Second Amendment.

3. Matthew McConaughey:

   We need background checks, we need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them.

4. Phil Ryan:

   The officer is lucky he wasn't hit because I'm pretty sure his body armor would have been penetrated by that rifle round, he could go above the body armor, below the body armor, (or)... in the head.

5. Shahad Smith:

   Enough of National Rifle Association. Enough of that.