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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v
1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder]
2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Hindi & Urdu l??; akin to Sanskrit lu??ati he plunders Date: circa 1788 1. goods usually of considerable value taken in war ; spoils 2. something held to resemble goods of value seized in war: as a. something appropriated illegally often by force or violence b. illicit gains by public officials c. money 3. the action of looting Synonyms: see spoil II. verb Date: 1845 transitive verb 1. a. to plunder or sack in war b. to rob especially on a large scale and usually by violence or corruption 2. to seize and carry away by force especially in war intransitive verb to engage in robbing or plundering especially in war • looter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 goods taken from an enemy; spoil. 2 booty; illicit gains made by an official. 3 sl. money. --v.tr. 1 rob (premises) or steal (goods) left unprotected, esp. after riots or other violent events. 2 plunder or sack (a city, building, etc.). 3 carry off as booty. Derivatives: looter n. Etymology: Hindi lut

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loot Loot, n. [Hind. l?t, Skr. l?tra, l?ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.] 1. The act of plundering. 2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.O?phant.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(loots, looting, looted) 1. If people loot shops or houses, they steal things from them, for example during a war or riot. The trouble began when gangs began breaking windows and looting shops... There have been reports of youths taking advantage of the general confusion to loot and steal. VERB: V n, V • looting In the country's largest cities there has been rioting and looting. 2. If someone loots things, they steal them, for example during a war or riot. The town has been plagued by armed thugs who have looted food supplies and terrorized the population. VERB: V n 3. Loot is stolen money or goods. (INFORMAL) Most criminals steal in order to sell their loot for cash on the black market. = plunder, spoils

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Booty, plunder, spoil. II. v. a. Plunder, ransack, rifle.

Moby Thesaurus

abduct, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, blackmail, boodle, booty, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, depredate, despoil, destroy, dough, filthy lucre, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gelt, go on, graft, greenbacks, gut, hammer, haul, hot goods, jack, kidnap, knock off, knock over, lay waste, lettuce, lift, lucre, maraud, maul, moolah, mug, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, plunder, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, rage, raid, ramp, rampage, ransack, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, riot, roar, rob, ruin, sack, savage, seizure, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, storm, swag, sweep, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, throttle, till, vandalize, violate, wreck