Loot
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English
Noun
Loot (uncountable)- Goods, commonly money or jewelery, obtained through theft, robbery, etc.
- (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
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Verb
Loot (third-person singular simple present Loots, present participle Looting, simple past and past participle Looted)
- to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
- (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
Verbs for Loot
appropriate—; bag—; bicker over—; con ceal—; divide—; embrace—; feed on—; forage for—; gather—; nab—; parcel—; plunder for—; pocket—; ransack for—; sack for—; scramble for—; smuggle—; snap up —; snatch—; strip of—; suckle on—; vie for—; wean on—.
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
Etymology
From Hindustani लूट / لوٹ lūṭ (spoil, booty) < Sanskrit लुण्टा lu.nt.ā
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophones: lute
