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Deplume

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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Despoil 76% connected

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Foray 76% connected

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Loot 76% connected

The act of plundering.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pillage 76% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Plunder 76% connected

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ransack 76% connected

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reave 76% connected

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rifle 76% connected

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 5

Deplumate 92% connected

Destitute or deprived of features; deplumed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Displume 92% connected

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Pluck 92% connected

To pull; to draw.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pull 92% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tear 92% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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