Crossword clues for looting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.] To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses.
--L.
Oliphant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1842, verbal noun from loot (v.).
Wiktionary
n. The act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance. vb. (present participle of loot English)
WordNet
n. plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: robbery]
Wikipedia
Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting. The term is also used in a broader sense to describe egregious instances of theft and embezzlement, such as the "plundering" of private or public assets by governments. Looting is loosely distinguished from scavenging in terms of objects taken: scavenging implies taking of essential items such as food, water, shelter, or other material needed for survival while looting implies items not necessary for survival such as luxury goods, art work, precious metals or other assorted items of value to the looters. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.
Looting (alternately, lewting, from a common misspelling), in massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and MUDs, is the process by which a player character obtains items (or loot) such as in-game currency, spells, equipment, or weapons, often from the corpse of a creature or possibly the corpse of another player in a PVP situation (cf. looting). These looted items will be placed into the player's own inventory. Loot is considered a reward for killing a creature or other player.
Usage examples of "looting".
But in large-scale disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, and even electrical blackouts, looting and brigandage can break out on a scale that goes far beyond what any police department can handle.
Every merchant, thief, jeweler, fisherman, and manjack within fifty miles ran for Dartmouth harbor to help out in the looting.
In the winter of 1835 a man named Murrel organized a conspiracy to foment widespread slave rebellion, with the intention of looting plantation houses in its wake all along the lower Mississippi valley when their owners fled.
Dickmann authorized large-scale ratissages looting of French towns under the pretext of searching for Maquis suspects, but in reality looking for gold.
Free Staters are constantly resupplied by the government, but the Republicans have to commandeer supplies from the citizenry, or get them through outright looting.
There were parades of the unemployed, demanding bread and work, looting shops.
And the Aramaeans are burning, looting, running off stock, and generally having a grand old time.
About six months ago I was captured trying to bring in a Mexican named Cerillo who was murdering and looting his way throughout much of the Texas-Mexican border.
He also confirms himself against divine providence when he reflects that wars are permitted and the slaughter of so many in them and the looting of so many cities, nations and families.
Maddened visitors were looting the malls, filling their holdalls with aftershave, cyberporn and tubes.
And maybe the jundies would have been so busy looting the berg ens that all that kit would have disappeared anyway.
Illegal seizure of ships and other property of German and Italian nationals was coupled with the threat to, and looting of, those who were deprived of their liberty by being interned.
The building stood as Rabban had restored it, virtually untouched by the fighting although there had been looting by townspeople.
That afternoon the Lord Mayor announced that there was no need for panic and that the Guild of Engineers would bring the city safely through this crisis - but there had already been riots and looting on the lower tiers, and squads of Beefeaters had been sent down to keep order in the Gut.
As they grew older they became bolder, rolling drunks and extorting protection money from local businessmen, even looting boxcars in the local freight yards and battling other juvenile gangs.