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Rape

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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Assail 76% connected

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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Assault 76% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Attack 76% connected

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Mustard 76% connected

The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard o…

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Pillage 76% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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Pillaging 76% connected

of Pillage

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Plundering 76% connected

of Plunder

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Ruin 76% connected

The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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Assault 74% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assault 74% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Despoil 74% connected

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

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Despoil 74% connected

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

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Spoliation 74% connected

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

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Spoliation 74% connected

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation.

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Synonym 12

Assault 92% connected

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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.

Colza 92% connected

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Despoil 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dishonor 92% connected

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Outrage 92% connected

To rage in excess of.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plunder 92% 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 68% interchangeable

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Rapine 92% connected

The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ravish 92% connected

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ravishment 92% connected

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Spoil 92% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Violate 92% connected

To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Violation 92% connected

The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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