looting
stealing goods from shops or houses during a state of emergency
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"But up to 60,000 could still be stranded in the city, the US coastguard says. LOOTING has swept the city as people made homeless by the flooding have grown increasingly desperate."
(BBC News - 2nd September 2005)
(BBC News - 2nd September 2005)
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know?
loot-ing
n : plundering during riots or in wartime
There are lots of synonyms for the word "theft" - there must be a lot about!
annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab, heist, holdup, hustle, job, larceny, lift, looting, mugging, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score, shoplifting, snatch, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, theft, thieving, vandalism
n : plundering during riots or in wartime
There are lots of synonyms for the word "theft" - there must be a lot about!
annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab, heist, holdup, hustle, job, larceny, lift, looting, mugging, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score, shoplifting, snatch, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, theft, thieving, vandalism
