Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun rifling

1 sense of rifling

Sense 1
grooving, rifling -- (the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm)
       => formation, shaping -- (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb rifle

2 senses of rifle

Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")
       => take -- (take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill")

Sense 2
rifle, go -- (go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?")
       => search -- (subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys")