Loot - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |luːt|  American pronunciation of the word loot
Brit.  |luːt|  British pronunciation of the word loot

noun

- goods or money obtained illegally (syn: booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag)
- informal terms for money (syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, sugar, wampum)

verb

- take illegally; of intellectual property (syn: plunder)
- steal goods; take as spoils (syn: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip)
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Extra examples

After raiding the town, the soldiers helped themselves to any loot that they could find.

The thieves got a lot of loot in the robbery.

He made a lot of loot selling cars.

The soldiers were looting every house that they came to.

Soldiers swept through the territory, looting, burning, and killing.

The summer palace of the Emperor has been unceremoniously looted.

Shops were looted and burned.

Jodie came home from the mall with bags of loot.

During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: loot
he/she/it: loots
present participle: looting
past tense: looted
past participle: looted
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