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Word entry · 5 letters

rifle

Best crossword clue

"Long gun"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹaɪfəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted efilrStarts with REnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
1R2I3F4L5E

Definitions

  1. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way

Used in a sentence

  • Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
  • In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
  • Near-synonym: riffle

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