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“rifling”
rifle (verb), rifles; rifled; rifling
1. To rob, to strip, or to ransack: The burglar was caught as he was rifling the company's safe.
2. To search urgently: Tony was rifling through the kitchen drawer looking for a knife to cut the meat that he was going to fry for dinner.
3. To look through something quickly and not very closely: A man was seen who was rifling through a woman's purse while she was trying on a new dress in the booth.
4. To throw or to hit a ball with a great deal of speed and force: The baseball player in left field successfully rifled the baseball to the catcher to get the batter out.
2. To search urgently: Tony was rifling through the kitchen drawer looking for a knife to cut the meat that he was going to fry for dinner.
3. To look through something quickly and not very closely: A man was seen who was rifling through a woman's purse while she was trying on a new dress in the booth.
4. To throw or to hit a ball with a great deal of speed and force: The baseball player in left field successfully rifled the baseball to the catcher to get the batter out.
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English Words in Action, Group R
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