looting

Speech parts

1. looting - Noun

2. looting - Verb

Meaning

of Loot

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

robbery saki destruction strip raid steal rape theft stealing predation sack raiding foraging devastation plunder

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Antonyms

pennyworth protect furnish mend dower herbivorous

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Hypernyms

plundering pillage pillaging

Phrases with the word

go looting looting obsession

Anagrams

tooling Ilongot

Examples

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that. David Kay

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music ... an obscene looting of a cultural expression. Ralph Ellison

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. George Will

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. Louis Althusser

I want people to know there is more to Somalia than looting and piracy. Michael Palin

The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy. George Will

Close letter words and terms

looter looter fly lootie looting obsession lootocracy lootocrat