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LOOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods or money obtained illegally

Synonyms:

booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; plunder; prize; swag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("loot" is a kind of...):

stolen property (property that has been stolen)

Meronyms (parts of "loot"):

cut (a share of the profits)

Derivation:

loot (steal goods; take as spoils)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("loot" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Steal goods; take as spoils

Example:

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

Synonyms:

despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "loot" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "loot"):

deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

loot (goods or money obtained illegally)

looter (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

looting (plundering during riots or in wartime)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take illegally; of intellectual property

Example:

This writer plundered from famous authors

Synonyms:

loot; plunder

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "loot" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They loot the goods

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