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Rifled

verb
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html)
"She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document."
2.verbTo commit robbery or theft.
3.verbTo search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
4.verbTo strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
5.verbTo seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
6.verbTo add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
7.verbTo cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
8.verbTo move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
9.verbTo dispose of in a raffle.
10.verbTo engage in a raffle.
11.adjectiveHaving a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

Synonyms

groovingmuggedrobbedwindingspiralizedgyratoryraffledspiratedtwistedwhirlyspinnywheely

Antonyms

smoothboreunrifled

Rhymes With

stifledtrifledalveoli filledcry filledeye filledlife fillednigh filledpie filled
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