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for Looting
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.
[1913 Webster]
Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.
Oliphant.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
looting
n 1: plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: looting,
robbery]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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
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