transitive. To rob (a place or district) of goods or valuables by force; to raid. Obsolete.

transitive. To harry, rob, spoil. Used especially in the phrase to harrow hell, said of Christ.

transitive. To plunder, rob, steal from (a place, building, race or class of people, etc.); to devastate, lay waste to (a country). Also figurative…

To pillage or plunder (a country, city, house, ship, etc.); to clear of goods or valuables by the exercise of superior force; to ravage or sack.

transitive. To scour or ravage (a country) in search of forage or booty; to pillage; to seize and carry off (goods); to plunder the property of (a…

transitive. To collect forage from; to overrun (a country) for the purpose of obtaining or destroying supplies; to lay under contribution for…

transitive. To plunder or pillage (a town, city, country, etc.). Now rare.

transitive. To strip or plunder; hence, to defeat, rout. Also figurative.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To ravage, harry, spoil (land, a country, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To spoil, plunder (of baggage).

transitive. To give over (a city, town, etc.) to plunder by the soldiery of a victorious army; to strip (a person or place) of possessions or goods…

transitive. To make havoc of; to devastate; to lay waste. Also absol.

transitive. To put to sack; to plunder.

transitive. To rob (a person); (now usually) to plunder, loot, or sack (a place), esp. in war.

transitive. Originally: to devastate, lay waste (land, a country, etc.), as by deliberate destruction or plunder. Later more generally: to cause…

Pseudo-archaic f. ravish, n.

transitive. To spoil; to pillage; to plunder.

= boot-hale, v.

transitive. To rob (a place or person) of goods or valuables forcibly, typically in a time of war or civil disorder or in the course of a hostile…

To make an inroad on, upon; to raid. Also transferred and figurative.

transitive. To plunder, despoil (a place); to rob (a person). Chiefly figurative.

transitive. Perhaps: to plunder; to cheat. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To plunder, sack (a city, building).

transitive. To make a raid on (a place, person, etc.).