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/luːt/ · noun
Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat..
India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.
The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.
Loot, plunder, pillage.
He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.
Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.
The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.
But yet, with the persistent avariciousness of the white man, the Arabs clung to their loot, and when morning came forced the demoralized Manyuema to take up their burdens of death and stagger on into the jungle.
He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.
Use loot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Loot means Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat..
Common synonyms include booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly, sack.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.
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