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LOOTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does looting mean?
• LOOTING (noun)
The noun LOOTING has 1 sense:
1. plundering during riots or in wartime
Familiarity information: LOOTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plundering during riots or in wartime
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
looting; robbery
Hypernyms ("looting" is a kind of...):
pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)
Derivation:
loot (steal goods; take as spoils)
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