| 单词 | loot |
| 释义 | loot (once / 1295 pages) nv Burglars and pirates handle a lot of loot — otherwise known as stolen money or goods. One bank robber might say to the other, "You watch the customers! I'm going after the loot!" Loot most often means money, especially the kind of money you didn't get legally. Loot is right up there with booty and swag in the family of words for stolen or pillaged things. When used as a verb, loot refers to the act of stealing, like when an angry mob loots the local grocery store during a riot. WORD FAMILYloot: looted, looter, looting, loots+/looter: looters/looting: lootings USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, cash dried up, retail commerce froze, and Maduro suspended the move as rioting and looting erupted. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) When no new bolivar notes appeared to replace the old ones, riots and looting erupted in towns across Venezuela, whose economy was already in shambles. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) Long queues outside bank branches, while in some areas supermarkets and shops were looted. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1n goods or money obtained illegally Syn|Hyper booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag stolen property property that has been stolen 2n informal terms for money Syn|Hyper boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum money the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender 3v steal goods; take as spoils During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners Syn|Hypo|Hyper despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip deplume, displume strip of honors, possessions, or attributes take take by force 4v take illegally; of intellectual property Syn|Hyper plunder steal take without the owner's consent |
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