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looted

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loot  (lt)
n.
1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
2. Stolen goods.
3. Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
4. Informal Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
5. Slang Money.
v. loot·ed, loot·ing, loots
v.tr.
1. To pillage; spoil.
2. To take as spoils; steal.
v.intr.
To engage in pillaging.

[Hindi l, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]

looter n.
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Adj.1.looted - wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"


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Van Horn recollected the Fair Hathaway of fifteen years before, looted and burned by the people of Su'u after all hands had been killed.
It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin Islands and my being looted by the runaway apprentices were purple passages.
In mobs composed wholly of themselves, they fired and looted buildings and factories.
 
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