... 0 (2005) n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] v 1: take ... of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder] 2: plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked ... stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray] 4: destroy and strip ... the town > b. to take by force or wrongfully ; steal, loot < plundered artifacts from the tomb > 2. to make extensive use ... plundering ; pillaging 2. something taken by force, theft, or fraud ; loot 3. chiefly dialect personal or household effects Synonyms: see spoil ... been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves. = loot VERB: V n, V n of n, V n ...
... an enemy in war or from a victim in robbery ; loot b. public offices made the property of a successful party ... or flawed in the making Synonyms: spoil, plunder, booty, prize, loot mean something taken from another by force or craft. spoil ... the enemy < the wartime right of seizing prizes at sea >. loot applies especially to what is taken from victims of a catastrophe < picked through the ruins for loot >. II. verb (spoiled; also spoilt; spoiling) Etymology: Middle English, from ... look bad, look for, look like hell, look something terrible, loot, lumber, mar, maraud, mess up, mildew, miscue, mold, molder, mollycoddle ...
... or in wartime [syn: looting, robbery] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Loot Loot, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb ... the houses. --L.O?phant. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see loot Moby Thesaurus assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation ...
... stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray] 2: briefly enter enemy ... freebooting, gut, harass, harry, incursion, inroad, inundate, invade, invasion, irruption, loot, looting, make a raid, make an inroad, maraud, marauding, overrun ...
... stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray] 2: go through in ... knock over, legionary, light infantryman, look all over, look everywhere, loot, man-at-arms, maraud, marksman, military man, musket, musketeer, navy ...
... syn: prize, award] 2: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 3: something given ... jackpot, jewel, jimmy, lever, leverage, limb, lodestone, look up to, loot, love to distraction, magnet, make an estimation, make much of ...