loot
phonetic symbol: / lút /
loot - English Dictionary
[ noun ]
■ goods or money obtained illegally
→
booty
,
dirty money
,
pillage
,
plunder
,
prize
,
swag
[ noun ]
■ informal terms for money
→
boodle
,
bread
,
cabbage
,
clams
,
dinero
,
dough
,
gelt
,
kale
,
lettuce
,
lolly
,
lucre
,
moolah
,
pelf
,
scratch
,
shekels
,
simoleons
,
sugar
,
wampum
[ verb ]
■ steal goods
■ take as spoils
e.g.)
・During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
→
despoil
,
foray
,
pillage
,
plunder
,
ransack
,
reave
,
rifle
,
strip
[ verb ]
■ take illegally
■ of intellectual property
→
plunder
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