Noun rifling has 1 sense
- grooving, rifling - the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
--1 is a kind of formation, shaping
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Verb rifle has 2 senses
- 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
- 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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