loot
noun
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L17833 on Wikidata ↗verb
- pillage, etc.
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /luːt/ / /lut/ / /ɫʉːt/
noun
Etymology: Clipping.
- Clipping of lieutenant.
“R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
- Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
“We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.”
“Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder”
- Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
“He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’”