Word Meanings - LOOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of plundering. 2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOOT)

• Booty
• Plunder
• blackmail
• loot
• spoils
• prey
• pillage
• Prey
• Spoil
• booty
• plunder
• rapine
• victim
• seizure

Related words: (words related to LOOT)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• RAPINE
  rapina, fr. rapere to seize and carry off by force. See Rapid, and 1. The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by
• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• BLACKMAILING
  The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
• BLACKMAILER
  One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
• SPOILSMONGER
  One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.
• BOOTY
  That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
• SPOILFUL
  Wasteful; rapacious.
• PILLAGER
  One who pillages. Pope.
• SPOILFIVE
  A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.
• VICTIMATE
  To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. Bullokar.
• BLACKMAIL
  Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation. (more info) 1. A certain rate of money, corn, cattle,
• PLUNDERAGE
  The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
• PLUNDER
  Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
• VICTIMIZE
  To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
• PILLAGE
  1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak. Syn. -- Plunder; rapine;
• DESPOIL
  despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed
• FREEBOOTY
  Freebootery.
• RESEIZURE
  A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.