loot
1. goods or money obtained illegally (Freq. 2)
• Syn:
booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
• Derivationally related forms:
plunder (for: plunder), pillage (for: pillage)
• Hypernyms:
stolen property
• Part Meronyms:
cut
2. informal terms for money (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero,
dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre,
lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum
• Derivationally related forms:
cabbage (for: cabbage)
• Hypernyms:
money
1. take illegally;
of intellectual property (Freq. 1)
- This writer plundered from famous authors
• Syn:
plunder
• Derivationally related forms:
plunder (for: plunder)
• Topics:
crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
• Hypernyms:
steal
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They loot the goods
2. steal goods;
take as spoils
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
• Syn:
plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray
• Derivationally related forms:
pillage (for: pillage), pillager (for: pillage), pillaging (for: pillage), looter, looting, despoilment (for: despoil), despoliation (for: despoil), despoiler (for: despoil), plunderer (for: plunder), plunder (for: plunder), plundering (for: plunder)
• Hypernyms:
take
• Hyponyms:
deplume, displume
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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