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Answer for the clue "The act of despoiling a country in warfare ", 4 letters:
rape

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" Rape " is a 1973 poem by Adrienne Rich . "Rape" describes the plight of a woman who has been raped forced to seek justice from a callous and patronizing male-dominated world. As in many of Rich's poems, "Rape" highlights the struggle of women against ...

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n. Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop [syn: colza , Brassica napus ] the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rapine ] the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: violation , assault ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kind of cruciferous plant ( Brassica napus ), late 14c., from Old French rape , from Latin rapa, rapum "turnip," from PIE *rap- (cognates: Greek hrapys "rape," Old Church Slavonic repa , Lithuanian rope , Middle Dutch roeve , Old High German ruoba , German ...

Usage examples of rape.

Negroes who had received sentences of death for rape, and asserted that, at least in capital cases, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him as a necessary requisite of due process of Law.

Emaa had tried to force her into living in Niniltna, the womb to which she had fled from the stifling, swarming confines of college, the place waiting for her on long weekends and vacations between time on the job in Anchorage, the one place in the world able to heal the wounds inflicted by five and a half years of casework featuring raped and beaten women and abused children, her home, her center, her sanctuary, her refuge.

He saw Mademoiselle Mimi, with two eyes encircled with an aureola of satisfied voluptuousness, leaving the residence in which she had acquired her title of nobility, on the arm of her new lord and master, who, to tell the truth, appeared far less proud of her new conquest than Paris after the rape of Helen.

Presbyter Johannes, a great king who comes on der magic horse to chase avay die Turks and Tatars, because now outsider der castle die Tatars burn and loot and rape.

I will know, I thought dragging myself over, if your eyes are flat and dull, doll-blank, and your body stiff, ready for the next blow, I will know you have been brutalized, raped or beaten, that Beane broke your spirit in those long six weeks.

It was certainly preferable to raping Mrs Biggs, which seemed the only alternative.

The rape had terribly cicatrized and battered the emotions of the romantic, adolescent Hortense beyond her capacity to survive.

With the first crimes, one significant event is his rape at adolescence by the two females.

Warren advances to major crimes of rape and murder in frustration over being identified for the purse-snatching.

The rates for other serious violent crimes, such as aggravated assault, forcible rape, and robbery, were equally disturbing.

Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape, narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.

But she knew it did bother him, and that she had unconsciously raped Dinah in yet another way definitely bothered her.

In addition to rape, Selina is frightened of mice, spiders, dogs, toadstools, cancer, mastectomy, chipped mugs, ghost stories, visions, portents, fortune tellers, astrology columns, deep water, fires, floods, thrush, poverty, lightning, ectopic pregnancy, rust, hospitals, driving, swimming, flying and ageing.

Since when had a bunch of mobsters who killed, raped, and sold dope, women, and 113 Rita Clay Estrada hooch been considered fair?

Non-combatants suffered considerable temporary and incidental molestation during warfare, there was a certain amount of raping and looting, devastation to destroy supplies, pressed labour and spy-hunting on a scale which amounted in most cases to little more than an exacerbation of normal criminality.