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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rap·ine /ˈræpən, ˌpaɪn/
 搶奪,掠奪

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rap·ine n.
 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.
    Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory.   --Macaulay.
 2. Ravishment; rape. [Obs.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rap·ine, v. t. To plunder.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rapine
      n : the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rape]