Looting

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loot \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.
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           Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.
                                                    Oliphant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  looting
       n : plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: {robbery}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "looting":
     assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism,
     butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
     direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure,
     freebooting, killing, laying waste, marauding, massacre,
     obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder,
     plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid,
     raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage,
     ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving,
     rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter,
     sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness,
     violation, wolfishness