—rifle /ˈraɪ.fl̩/
noun [C]
► F0 a type of gun with a long barrel (= part shaped like a tube), fired from the shoulder and designed to be accurate at long distancesThesaurus+: ↑Handguns and rifles , ↑Aiming and aim , ↑Hand weaponsverb [I or T] ↑Verb Endings for rifle
► F0 to search quickly through something, often in order to steal something: » The safe had been rifled and the diamonds were gone.» He rifled through the papers on the desk, but couldn't find the photographs.Thesaurus+: ↑StealingThesaurus+: ↑Searching- ♯ Strong feelings
- ♯ Strong-willed
- ♯ Stubborn and determined people
- ♯ Students and pupils
- ♯ Stupid and silly
- ♯ Stupid and silly behaviour
- ♯ Stupid and silly people
- ♯ Subjects and disciplines
- ♯ Substances and structures in the body
- ♯ Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- ♯ Success and achievements
- ♯ Successful (things or people)
- ♯ Sugar and sugar substitutes
- ♯ Suggestions and proposals
- ♯ Suitable and acceptable
- ♯ Sultriness and humidity
- ♯ Summaries and summarising
- ♯ Supporters, members and defenders
- ♯ Surfaces of objects
- ♯ Surfaces on which sports take place
- ♯ Surgery
- ♯ Surpassing in quality or number
- ♯ Surprise and confusion
- ♯ Surprised
- ♯ Surprising and shocking