loot

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loot

booty; spoils or plunder taken by pillaging; to ransack, plunder: loot the art museums

Not to be confused with:

lute – a stringed musical instrument

loot

(lo͞ot)

1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.

2. Stolen goods or money.

3. Informal Things of value, such as gifts, received.

4. Slang Money.

v. loot·ed, loot·ing, loots

v.tr.

1. To take goods from (a place) by force or without right, especially in time of war or lawlessness; plunder: The rebels looted the city. Rioters looted the downtown stores.

2. To take by force or without right; steal: broke into the tomb and looted the grave goods.

v.intr.

To take goods by force or through lawless behavior.

[Hindi lūṭ, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]

loot′er n.

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loot

(luːt)

1. goods stolen during pillaging, as in wartime, during riots, etc

2. goods, money, etc, obtained illegally

3. (Banking & Finance) informal money or wealth

4. the act of looting or plundering

5. to pillage (a city, settlement, etc) during war or riots

6. to steal (money or goods), esp during pillaging

[C19: from Hindi lūt]

ˈlooter n

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loot

(lut)
n.

1. spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.

2. anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.: a burglar's loot.

3. a collection of gifts or purchases.

4. Slang. money.

5. the act of looting.

v.t.

6. to carry off or take (something) as loot: to loot a nation's art treasures.

7. to plunder or pillage (a place), as in war; despoil.

8. to rob, as by burglary or corrupt activity in public office: to loot the public treasury.

v.i.

9. to take loot; plunder.

[1780–90; < Hindi lūṭ]

loot′er, n.

loot

Past participle: looted
Gerund: looting

Imperative
loot
loot

Present
I loot
you loot
he/she/it loots
we loot
you loot
they loot

Preterite
I looted
you looted
he/she/it looted
we looted
you looted
they looted

Present Continuous
I am looting
you are looting
he/she/it is looting
we are looting
you are looting
they are looting

Present Perfect
I have looted
you have looted
he/she/it has looted
we have looted
you have looted
they have looted

Past Continuous
I was looting
you were looting
he/she/it was looting
we were looting
you were looting
they were looting

Past Perfect
I had looted
you had looted
he/she/it had looted
we had looted
you had looted
they had looted

Future
I will loot
you will loot
he/she/it will loot
we will loot
you will loot
they will loot

Future Perfect
I will have looted
you will have looted
he/she/it will have looted
we will have looted
you will have looted
they will have looted

Future Continuous
I will be looting
you will be looting
he/she/it will be looting
we will be looting
you will be looting
they will be looting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been looting
you have been looting
he/she/it has been looting
we have been looting
you have been looting
they have been looting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been looting
you will have been looting
he/she/it will have been looting
we will have been looting
you will have been looting
they will have been looting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been looting
you had been looting
he/she/it had been looting
we had been looting
you had been looting
they had been looting

Conditional
I would loot
you would loot
he/she/it would loot
we would loot
you would loot
they would loot

Past Conditional
I would have looted
you would have looted
he/she/it would have looted
we would have looted
you would have looted
they would have looted

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Noun	1.	loot - goods or money obtained illegally booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag stolen property - property that has been stolen cut - a share of the profits; "everyone got a cut of the earnings"
	2.	loot - informal terms for money gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, boodle, clams, dinero, shekels, simoleons, wampum, dough, bread, cabbage, sugar, scratch money - the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us"
Verb	1.	loot - take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" plunder crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
	2.	loot - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" despoil, foray, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, plunder, strip take - take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill" deplume, displume - strip of honors, possessions, or attributes

loot

verb

1. plunder, rob, raid, sack, rifle, ravage, ransack, pillage, despoil Gangs began breaking windows and looting shops.

noun

1. plunder, goods, prize, haul, spoils, booty, swag (slang) They steal in order to sell their loot for cash.

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loot

noun

Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime:

booty, pillage, plunder, spoil (used in plural).

Slang: boodle.

Nautical: prize.

verb

To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war:

depredate, despoil, havoc, pillage, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, sack, spoliate, strip.

Archaic: harrow, spoil.

Translations

سَلْب، مَغْنَميَسْلُب، يَنْهَب

lupplenit

bytteplyndre

Beute plündern

botín saquear

ryöstösaalis

butin fric piller pognon ravir

hadizsákmányzsákmány

rænaránsfengur

bottino depredare quattrini saccheggiare

plėšti

laupījumslaupītsirot

plyndre ta som bytte tyvegods utplyndre

ganimetyağmalamak

抢劫掠夺掠夺物

loot

[luːt]

A. N → botín m, presa f (= money) → pasta f, plata f (LAm)

B. VT → saquear

C. VI → entregarse al saqueo

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loot

[ˈluːt]

n → butin m

vt → piller

loot

n → Beute f; (dated inf: = money) → Zaster m (dated sl)

vti → plündern

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loot

[luːt]

1. n → bottino

2. vt → saccheggiare, depredare

3. vi to go looting → darsi al saccheggio

loot

(luːt) noun

something which is stolen. The thieves got away with a lot of loot.

verb

to rob or steal from (a place). The soldiers looted the shops of the captured town.

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And by the light of her burning, old Bashti apportioned the loot. No one of the tribe was too mean to receive nothing.

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and precious stones set in plumed crest and breastplate and shield, and even in the steel spiked chamfrons of the horses' head armor showed the rich loot which had fallen to the portion of Norman of Torn's wild raiders.

Shandy looked in surprise upon his leader, for the torch had never been a weapon of Norman of Torn, while loot, if not always the prime object of his many raids, was at least a very important consideration.

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This operation required several hours, during which time a number of the chariots were requisitioned to transport the loot, which consisted in arms, ammunition, silks, furs, jewels, strangely carved stone vessels, and a quantity of solid foods and liquids, including many casks of water, the first I had seen since my advent upon Mars.

Scarcely had he alighted than the guy ropes were simultaneous released, and the great warship, lightened by the removal of the loot, soared majestically into the air, her decks and upper works a mass of roaring flames.

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"It is my treasure; and if I can't have the loot I'll take darned good care that no one else does.

If you will be one of us this night, we will swear to you upon the naked knife, and by the threefold oath which no Sikh was ever known to break, that you shall have your fair share of the loot. A quarter of the treasure shall be yours.

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"An Outpost of Progress" is the lightest part of the loot I carried off from Central Africa, the main portion being of course "The Heart of Darkness." Other men have found a lot of quite different things there and I have the comfortable conviction that what I took would not have been of much use to anybody else.

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But yet, with the persistent avariciousness of the white man, the Arabs clung to their loot, and when morning came forced the demoralized Manyuema to take up their burdens of death and stagger on into the jungle.

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Raffles had turned away, as though in heart-broken contemplation of our lost loot. I saw the officer studying his half-profile with an alarming face.

"Yes," he continued, "this is loot, and the wrong 'un will out.

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All the tempestuous passions of mankind's young days, the love of loot and the love of glory, the love of adventure and the love of danger, with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power, have passed like images reflected from a mirror, leaving no record upon the mysterious face of the sea.