"rifled" in the verb sense
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"
2. rifle, go
go through in search of something search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
"Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
"rifled" in the adjective sense
1. rifled
of a firearm having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel
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