Synonyms of the word

deplume

• v. (transitive) To strip of feathers or plumage.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To lay bare; to expose.

despoil

• v. (transitive) To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.
• v. (transitive) To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
• v. (obsolete, transitive or reflexive) To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
• n. (obsolete) Plunder; spoliation.

displume

• v. To deprive of feathers, plumes, awards.

foray

• n. A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a…
• n. A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
• v. (transitive) To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc.
• v. (intransitive) To pillage; to ravage.

loot

• n. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum…
• n. The act of plundering.
• n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
• n. (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents.
• n. (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
• v. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
• v. To steal from.
• v. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

pillage

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• n. The spoils of war.
• n. The act of pillaging.

pluck

• v. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
• v. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
• v. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
• v. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
• v. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
• v. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
• v. (Britain, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
• n. An instance of plucking.
• n. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
• n. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

plunder

• v. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
• v. (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
• v. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
• v. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
• v. To take unexpectedly.
• n. An instance of plundering.
• n. The loot attained by plundering.
• n. (slang, dated) baggage; luggage.

pull

• interj. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• n. An act of pulling (applying force).
• n. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• n. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• n. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
• n. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star).
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in…
• n. A journey made by rowing.
• n. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• n. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
• n. (slang) The act of drinking.
• n. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
• n. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing…
• v. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
• v. To attract or net; to pull in.
• v. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• v. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• v. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
• v. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
• v. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• v. (intransitive) To row.
• v. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• v. (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward…
• v. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
• v. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• v. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked…
• v. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.).
• v. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• v. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

ransack

• v. (transitive) To loot or pillage. See also sack.
• v. (transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something,…
• v. (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
• v. To violate; to ravish; to deflower.

reave

• v. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
• v. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

rifle

• n. A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
• n. A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
• v. To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
• v. To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle).
• v. To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and…
• v. To strike something with great power.
• v. (intransitive) To commit robbery.
• v. (transitive) To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
• v. To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
• v. To raffle.

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.