Noun rifling has 1 sense
  1. grooving, rifling - the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
    --1 is a kind of formation, shaping
,Verb rifle has 2 senses
  1. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
    --1 is one way to take
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. rifle, go - go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
    --2 is one way to search
    Sample sentences:
    The men rifle the area for animals
    The men rifle for animals in the area
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