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looting
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun looting has 1 sense
- looting(n = noun.act) robbery - plundering during riots or in wartime; Array is a kind of pillage, pillaging, plundering
Derived form verb loot2
THESAURUS
looting
assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness, violation, wolfishness
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