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  • 71robber — Synonyms and related words: bandit, bank robber, body snatcher, booster, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, bushranger, cat burglar, cat man, chicken thief, con man, corsair, cracksman, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, filcher, footpad, freebooter,… …

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  • 72wrecker — Synonyms and related words: animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, forager, forayer,… …

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  • 73raider — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A person who makes raids] Syn. bandit, thief, robber, plunderer, looter, pillager, rifler, assaulter, highwayman, brigand, privateer, invader, commando, guerrilla, cavalryman, marauder, hijacker, cattle lifter, rustler,… …

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  • 74Thief — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Thief >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 thief thief robber homo triumliterarum pilferer rifler filcher plagiarist GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 spoiler spoiler depredator pillager marauder …

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  • 75Riffé — Le nom est surtout porté dans les Deux Sèvres. On le rencontre aussi sous les formes Riffait, Riffay (36), Riffet (18, 36, 45). Comme pour tous les noms commençant par Rif , le sens en est incertain. Il faut sans doute le rapprocher du verbe d… …

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  • 76Riflet — Nom porté dans l Ouest (44, 56). On trouve la forme Rifflet en Picardie et dans l Est. Semble un dérivé du verbe d ancien français rifler, qui signifie érafler, mais qui avait aussi un autre sens : se quereller, se battre. Sans doute le surnom d… …

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  • 77riffraff — (n.) late 15c., from earlier rif and raf one and all, every scrap (mid 14c.), from O.Fr. rif et raf, from rifler to spoil, strip (see RIFLE (Cf. rifle) (v.)) and raffler carry off, related to rafle plundering (see RAFFLE (Cf. raffle)) …

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  • 78riffler — noun an elongated tool for filing concave surfaces. Origin C18: from Fr. rifloir, from OFr. rifler to scrape …

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  • 79robber — n. Plunderer, pillager, thief, despoiler, depredator, highwayman, footpad, brigand, bandit, marauder, freebooter, rifler, pirate …

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  • 80burglar — thief, robber (see under THEFT) Analogous words: stealer, pilferer, filcher, purloiner (see corresponding verbs at STEAL): plunderer, looter, rifler (see corresponding verbs at ROB) …

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