Meaning of LOOT
| Pronunciation: | | loot
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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- [n] goods or money obtained illegally
- [n] informal terms for money
- [v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- [v] take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
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LOOT is a 4 letter word that starts with L. |
| | Synonyms: | | booty, bread, cabbage, despoil, dinero, dough, foray, gelt, kale, lucre, moolah, pelf, pillage, pillage, plunder, plunder, prize, ransack, reave, rifle, shekels, strip, swag |
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| | See Also: | | cut, deplume, displume, money, steal, stolen property, take | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Loot\, n. [Hind. l?t, Skr. l?tra, l?ptra, booty, lup to
break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]
1. The act of plundering.
2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered
or sacked city.
\Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Looted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Looting}.]
To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully
obtained by war.
Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses.
--L.O?phant.
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| | Related Terms: | | abduct, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, blackmail, boodle, booty, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, depredate, despoil, destroy, dough, filthy lucre, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gelt, go on, graft, greenbacks, gut, hammer, haul, hot goods, jack, kidnap, knock off, knock over, lay waste, lettuce, lift, lucre, maraud, maul, moolah, mug, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, plunder, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, rage, raid, ramp, rampage, ransack, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, riot, roar, rob, ruin, sack, savage, seizure, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, storm, swag, sweep, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, throttle, till, vandalize, violate, wreck |
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