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LOOTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does looted mean?
• LOOTED (adjective)
The adjective LOOTED has 1 sense:
1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
Familiarity information: LOOTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
Synonyms:
looted; pillaged; plundered; ransacked
Context example:
people returned to the plundered village
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Context examples
But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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