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Noun rifle has 1 sense
- rifle - a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore; "he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired"
 
--1 is a kind of firearm, piece, small-arm 
--1 has parts: bolt; pump action, slide action; rifle butt
 --1 has particulars: 
  
Verb rifle has 2 senses
- 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"
 
--1 is one way to take 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - rifle, go - go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?"
 
--2 is one way to search 
Sample sentences: 
The men rifle the area for animals  
The men rifle for animals in the area 
  
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