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looting

Pronunciation:  l'ooting

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 Definition: [n]  plundering during riots or in wartime
 
 Synonyms: robbery
 
 See Also: pillage, pillaging, plundering

 

 

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 Related Terms: 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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