tonous, insatiable, cormorant; greedy, avaricious, grasping, mercenary, acquisitive, covetous.
3. extortionate, exorbitant, usurious, excessive, inordinate, immoderate, extreme; insatiable, insatiate, omnivorous. rapacity, n. 1. ravenousness, ravening, rapaciousness, craving, voracity, voraciousness, omniverous-ness.
2. avarice, avariciousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, avidity; graspingness, acquisitiveness, Inf. itching palm.
3. extortion, usury, bloodsucking, leeching, sponging. rape, n. 1. (all usu. in reference to sexual relations) assault, attack, violation, molestation, ravishment; defilement, seduction; abuse, maltreatment, ill-usage; deflowering devirgination, Obs. constupration, Obs. stupration.
2. (usu. of persons) abduction, robbery, theft, capture, seizure, kidnapping; impressment, conscription; commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy.
3. plundering, pillage, despoilment, rapine, spoliation, ravaging, foraging, raid, sacking, depredation. -v. 4. (all usu. in reference to sexual relations) assault, attack, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat, maltreat, Euph. take advantage of, Euph. have one's way with; ravish, violate, deflower, Obs. devirginate, Ofo.constuprate, Obs. stuprate; molest, defile, outrage, desecrate; debauch, seduce, corrupt, pervert.
5. (usu. of persons) abduct, carry off, seize, steal, snatch, make off or away with; kidnap, seize as hostage, hold for ransom; commandeer, take over by force, hijack, skyjack; usurp, accroach, expropriate, arrogate.
6. plunder, pillage, despoil, Archaic, spoil, spoliate, devastate; lay waste, ravage, desolate, wreck havoc upon; raid, sack, loot, forage, maraud, depredate. rapid, adj. quick, swift, fast, fleet, speedy; hurried, winged, express, expeditious, galloping, tantivy, lightfooted, light of heel, light-legged, eagle-winged, quick as lightning, swift as an arrow; brisk, lively, spanking, Music, mosso, Music, allegro; agile, nimble, spry, active, agitated, feverish, bustling; hasty, impetuous, headlong, precipitate, rushing, urgent; prompt, instant, instantaneous, sudden; cursory, fleeting, perfunctory, superficial. rapidity, n. 1. swiftness, fleetness, fastness, speed, quickness; dispatch, huriedness, expedition, expeditiousness; velocity, acceleration, celerity; instantaneousness, immediateness, urgency, promptness, promptitude; abruptness, suddenness, precipitation; alacrity, agility, nimbleness, briskness, smartness, liveliness, tall stepping.
2. hurry, rush, hustle, bustle, dash, scurry, flurry; haste, helter-skelter, pell-mell, hurry-scurry; run, sprint, gallop, canter, tantivy; clip, spurt; scramble, scuttle, scamper; flight, flying, race. rapidly, adv. 1. quickly, speedily, swiftly, hurriedly; promptly, instantly, expeditiously, straightway, SI. pronto, in a wink, in an instant, in a jiffy, in a trice, in a flash, double-quick, Inf. like greased lightning, like a shot, like a house afire, like blazes, like a thunderbolt, SI. like mad, SI. like a bat out of hell; directly, at once, without delay, in less than no time, before one can say “Jack Robinson,” before the ink is dry, SI. P.D.Q., Inf. lickety-split; fast, full tilt, full pelt, full gallop, tantivy, by leaps and bounds, hotfoot, at full blast, in high gear, as fast as one's legs can carry one.
2. precipitately, hurriedly, headlong; abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly; rashly, at half cock, pell-mell, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, head over heels,

rapier, n. blade, sword, short or small sword, estoc, Archaic, tuck; Fencing, dpde, Fencing, foil, Fencing. saber; broadsword, claymore, Archaic, glaive, Toledo, Archaic, bilbo, Archaic, brand; cutlass, saber, scimitar, yataghan, falchion, creese, kris, anelace.

rapine, n. 1. plunder, plundering, plunderage, pillage, depredation, spoliation, despoilment, raven, Obs. direption; ravaging, harrying, marauding, sacking. Rare, sackage, laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, razzia, foray, foraging, looting; ravishment, seizure, grab, rape; kidnapping, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy, commandeering.