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looting

nounverbattested in dialogue

The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.

    Near-synonym: plundering

    During the looting, the mob stole everything they could and then set fire to the buildings.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of lootpresent participle and gerund of loot

    While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal.

Forms

plural
lootings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).