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Noun: looting  loo-ting
  1. Plundering during riots or in wartime
    - robbery
Verb: loot  loot
  1. Take illegally; of intellectual property
    "This writer looted from famous authors"
    - plunder
     
  2. Steal goods; take as spoils
    "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
    - plunder, despoil, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

Sounds like: luting

Derived forms: lootings

See also: looter

Type of: pillage, pillaging, plundering, steal, take

Encyclopedia: Loot

Looting