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loot

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1. loot - Noun

2. loot - Verb

Meaning

The act of plundering.

Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly. George Raft

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot... You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is. Paul Farmer

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. Alberto Manguel

Universal-suffrage democracy may have been a good idea 120 years ago, when most adults did productive work into their sixties, then died. In today's top-heavy welfare states, it just empowers tax-eaters to loot the national wealth. John Derbyshire

Somewhere around 1945 we began to loot the future as a strategy for survival, some ethical norm was shattered. Terence McKenna

We are in a state of bloodless civil war. No common principles, no respect for common institutions or traditions unite the various groups of politicians, who are struggling for power. To loot somebody or something is the common object under a thick varnish of pious phrases. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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