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1. Plundering during riots or in wartime
   - robbery

1. (crime) 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: loots, luting, lu

Derived forms: lootings

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

Encyclopedia: Looting