verb
During the riot shops were looted
and cars damaged or set on fire.
Discipline
quickly broke down after the city fell, and the invading soldiers
were found to be looting
and sometimes killing.
2. noun [U] Loot means money and valuable
objects that have been stolen, esp. by an
army from a defeated enemy.
Napoleon's army took priceless works of art from all over Europe
as loot.
The
men who robbed the camera store are trying to dispose of the loot
by selling it in the street.
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