loot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   money or goods stolen during a robbery, war, or period of disorder

   Police recovered the loot from an abandoned vehicle.

2. 2
   verb

   to steal goods from a place, especially during war or civil disorder

   Armed groups began to loot shops after the authorities withdrew.

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from Hindi lut, meaning plunder or booty, related to Hindi lutna, to plunder. The noun entered English first in accounts of colonial India, followed by the verb.

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