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looting

/loot/US // lut //UK // (luːt) //

掠夺,劫掠,抢夺,抢劫

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
    • : anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.: a burglar's loot.
    • : a collection of valued objects: The children shouted and laughed as they opened their Christmas loot.
    • : Slang. money: You'll have a fine time spending all that loot.
    • : the act of looting or plundering: to take part in the loot of a conquered city.
    • : valuable items that can be claimed from a defeated enemy or cache: I was hoping for new armor, but this loot was pretty disappointing.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to carry off or take as loot: to loot a nation's art treasures.
    • : to despoil by taking loot; plunder or pillage, as in war: The invaders looted temples and shrines.
    • : to rob, as by burglary or corrupt activity in public office: to loot the public treasury.
    • : to collect: Loot all of the bodies and treasure chests before you exit the dungeon.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to take loot; plunder: The conquerors looted and robbed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbsteal goods

Examples

  • There, according to Zambernardi, US ambassador Robert Hill carried the loot onto a private jet headed for Texas.

  • Please, no loot grindIn contrast to the 007 game announcement from IO Interactive, which was a match made in heaven, the response to the announcement of this game has been a bit more muted.

  • The loot premise works with games like “Borderlands” that revolve entirely around getting new guns.

  • In August, the game’s director Keith Lee said, “Godfall is a looter slasher that features intense action, satisfying moment-to-moment combat, and robust loot progression systems.”

  • But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.

  • Rioting and looting ensued shortly after the verdict and racial tensions were tense across the United States for years to follow.

  • In January 1948, Spitz again fell under suspicion for his role in the looting of art in Europe during the war.

  • Faced with rampaging youths, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley issued a strict “shoot to kill” order to police to halt looting.

  • NOTE: D'Souza's quote from Newsmax compared ISIS to 'what's going on in Furgeson,' and beheading to looting.

  • Jutes And paid us visits in their ships Bent on their ruthless looting trips.

  • They are reported as engaged in looting the city and getting drunk on the contents of the bodegas.

  • From them we heard awful tales of massacres and looting during the Bolshevist domination over the Black Sea regions.

  • Naturally, after being the scene of so much looting and such massacres, there is little left of the original city of the caliphs.

  • The desert Arabs hovered like vultures in the distance waiting for nightfall to cover them in their looting.