LOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loot mean? 

• LOOT (noun)
  The noun LOOT has 2 senses:

1. goods or money obtained illegally

2. informal terms for money

  Familiarity information: LOOT used as a noun is rare.

• LOOT (verb)
  The verb LOOT has 2 senses:

1. take illegally; of intellectual property

2. steal goods; take as spoils

  Familiarity information: LOOT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods or money obtained illegally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; plunder; prize; swag

Hypernyms ("loot" is a kind of...):

stolen property (property that has been stolen)

Meronyms (parts of "loot"):

cut (a share of the profits)

Derivation:

loot (steal goods; take as spoils)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

boodle; bread; cabbage; clams; dinero; dough; gelt; kale; lettuce; lolly; loot; lucre; moolah; pelf; scratch; shekels; simoleons; sugar; wampum

Hypernyms ("loot" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

• LOOT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they loot    ... he / she / it loots   
Past simple: looted   
Past participle: looted   
-ing form: looting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take illegally; of intellectual property

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

loot; plunder

Context example:

This writer plundered from famous authors

Hypernyms (to "loot" is one way to...):

rip; rip off; steal (take without the owner's consent)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They loot the goods

Sense 2

Meaning:

Steal goods; take as spoils

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip

Context example:

During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Hypernyms (to "loot" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "loot"):

deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

loot (goods or money obtained illegally)

looter (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

looting (plundering during riots or in wartime)

 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)