loot
loot
Definition
loot (lo̵̅o̅t)
noun
- goods stolen or taken by force, as from a captured enemy city in wartime or by a corrupt official or by rioters; plunder; spoils
- the act of looting
- Slang
- money
- items of value; esp., gifts received
Etymology: Hindi lūt < Sans luṇṭ, to rob
transitive verb
- to plunder; strip of everything valuable; despoil
- to take or carry off as plunder; steal
intransitive verb
to engage in plundering
loot′er noun
loot
Synonyms
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Synonyms
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Usage Examples
Object
- antiquity: None of the items displayed at a news conference were priceless antiquities looted from Iraqi museums.
- treasure: Once a notorious base used by pirates, Cocos is reputed to still hold vast fortunes of looted treasure hidden within its forests.
- artifact: Their involvement helps make the looted artifacts more saleable.
- gold: Minister Stucki, the head of the Swiss delegation, also refuted the validity of the concept of looted gold.
- fragment: The present location of most of the looted Assyrian fragments is unknown.
- object: Many looted objects have turned up in this city.
Converse of object
- steal: Then three burglars turn up, expecting no one there to stop them stealing the loot.
- get: What an odd half hour as we waited for him to get the loot.
- take: The outlaws walk into town, rob the bank and take the loot to the train station to win.
- have: I have the loot to go out, I just don't want to.
- bury: In either case it appears to have seemed sensible to bury the loot.
Adjective modifier
- Nazi: He knew of several stashes of Nazi loot, hidden at various locations.
Modifies a noun
- bag: Gone are the days of the plastic loot bags!
Modifying Another Word
- systematically: Many Iron Age sites have been systematically looted for small items of saleable jewelry.
- again: Of the game my family at looted again quot on the.
- then: With 1,400 men he defeated the garrison of 2,600 in pitched battle outside the city, which he then looted.
- also: She also looted his special time of the night.
- not: The Vikings would not loot the city or otherwise damage it.
- reportedly: To further terrorize ethnic Albanians, Serbs reportedly looted and burned their homes and shops throughout the town.
Preposition: from
- site: The pieces, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars, were looted from Egyptian archeological sites in the spring.
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