| 单词 | looter |
| 释义 | looter (once / 14886 pages) n Someone who takes advantage of a chaotic situation to steal things is a looter. During a war (or even during a blackout), looters may help themselves to food and supplies from shops. When you think of a riot, you probably not only imagine angry people shouting in the street and damaging property, but also looters raiding stores and stealing goods from them. Looter, defined in the 1850s as "one who plunders," comes from loot, "to steal," from the Hindi lut and loptram or lotram, "stolen property," in Sanskrit. WORD FAMILYlooter: looters+/loot: looted, looter, looting, loots/looting: lootings USAGE EXAMPLESThe site, though liberated last month from the extremists, is reduced to rubble, largely unguarded and vulnerable to looters. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Security forces fired teargas in Venezuela’s largest second city, Maracaibo, to stop looters, witnesses said. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) Security forces fired teargas in Venezuela's largest second city, Maracaibo, to stop looters, witnesses said. Reuters(Dec 17, 2016) n someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper despoiler, freebooter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler Khayr ad-Din Barbary pirate (died in 1546) Jean LaffiteFrench pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826) Sir Henry Morgana Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688) Bartholomew Robertsa Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722) Edward Thatchan English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation Barbary pirate, corsaira pirate along the Barbary Coast sea kinga Viking pirate chief stealer, thief a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
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