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Adjective: rifled  rI-fuld
  1. Of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel
Verb: rifle  rI-ful
  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
    "During the earthquake people rifled the stores that were deserted by their owners";
    - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, ransack, pillage, foray
     
  2. Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
    "Who rifled through my desk drawers?";
    - go

Type of: search, take

Antonym: unrifled

Encyclopedia: Rifled

Rifle, M16