Loot : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Loot	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Loot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loot n goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] informal terms for money Synonym(s): boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum v take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" Synonym(s): loot, plunder steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonym(s): plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Looted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Looting}.] To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.O[?]phant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Loot \Loot\, n. [Hind. l[?]t, Skr. l[?]tra, l[?]ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.] 1. The act of plundering. 2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.